Re: “New cases in California....the articles noted that these children had not been to Mexico...by why bother when Mexico comes to ya every day!..................”
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Right — Mexico is here all the time because the Mexicans are here — legally or illegally. And here in Los Angeles where Mexican kids make up the majority of ‘students’(ha) in LA Unified Schools, the parents take them back to Mexico constantly, even during non-vacation times.
A friend of mine is a substitute teacher at many elementary schools in heart of L.A. and says kids disappear for a week or more at a time, then return after a family visit to Mexico to see the relatives. Education is not stressed in these families at all — they see the classroom as a babysitter and teachers all say the kids don’t pay attention and don’t learn anything. Many of the adults in the homes don’t speak English but most of the kids do as they are born here, the so-called “anchor babies” of illegals.
FWIW, this teacher friend of mine is ALWAYS sick with colds and flu from all those kids — the schools in L.A. where he teaches are 98% hispanic/Mexican. The only kids who are not hispanic or black in L.A. Unified are a few in some suburbs and that’s where the white and asian kids are found in small numbers.
So no, it does not matter whether or not the kids have been to Mexico, there are so many Mexicans here all the time that it makes no difference.
It looks a lot like Mexico where I live. (Northern California)
P.S. ....my 20yo son came down with a cold or flu last Saturday. (very scary getting flu symptoms right now)
I told him to go to the ER, but he wouldn’t. He is feeling much better today. Fever gone, no aches or pains.
Is anyone else sick with a cold or flu, but not feeling bad enough to go to the ER?