Illegal ingrates. A teacher's perspective.

[lurker]

This email is from a retiree whose wife is a teacher in the Riverside, CA area and has been for many many years. The attached is first hand knowledge...

Subject: Schooling the offsprings of Illegals.

As you all listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration there are some things that you should be aware of. My wife is in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at large s outhern California high school, which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower social economic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about--South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc.--where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools. My wife tells me that 100% of the students in her school and other Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast, free lunch program. When I say free breakfast I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll... but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. She estimates that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.

She was ordered to spend $700,000 on her department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; her budget was already substantial. She ended up buying new computers for their computer learning center; half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America.

She has had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"--whores--and throwing things that the teachers were in tears. Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To my bleeding-heart liberal friends who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs. Higher insurance, Medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc., etc.

For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes. We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will leave and return voluntarily? There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.

It does, however, have everything to do with culture:
A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate... and an American culture that has become so weak and politically correct that we don't have the will to do anything about it.

[Bubba]

Very well said!

[Detector]

I have a friend that compares her job being a teacher to her time as a prison guard at a maximum security prison. She said they shared many of the same requirements as far as putting up with people who have no consideration for others. She said she preferred the prison because at least there she had some control and the support of the warden to reprimand violators.

And this is from a local school.

[Craigb]

After the Mercado young man was shot and killed by a gang banger, there was a uproar in the community. There was a meeting held in the gym where anyone could voice his or her opinions concerning this nightmare. I asked why we had to educate the gang bangers and illegals that were taking over our schools and causing a mess for everyone NOT hispanic. I was told that because it was the LAW? What is this law that says that we have to educate the illegal children and or gangbangers? Is there such a law?

[TexKan]

Sadly I believe there is........................ just can't quote it for you - I know you can't discriminate.......... that my friend is a law......... I can't quote it either...... I'm sick of this too!

[lurker]

Sadly, we're all living under The Law of Unintended Consequences.

[youngwhippersnapper]

Originally Posted by lurker

Sadly, we're all living under The Law of Unintended Consequences.

Its true sadly...but if the Board of Education would grow a pair and make the punishments for violation of public school rules. Zero Tolerance enforcement would be a start. Expel the little bastards so they can stop disrupting our childrens time for education.

Because frankly...

Dodge City High School - 316/335 For High Schools

Dodge City Middle School - 244/255 For Middle Schools
Soule Intermediate Center - 144/255 For Middle Schools
Commanche Intermediate Center - 237/255 For Middle Schools

Beeson Elementary - 293/739 For Elementary Schools
Sunnyside Elementary - 727/739 For Elementary Schools
Central Elementary - 562/739 For Elementary Schools
Northwest Elementary - 604/739 For Elementary Schools
Linn Elementary - 589/739 For Elementary Schools
Miller Elementary - 426/739 For Elementary Schools
Wilroad's Garden Elementary - 182/739 For Elementary Schools

Sacred Heart Cathedral School - Not ranked

...in Reading and Mathmatics skills determined by standardized testing in the state of Kansas. These rankings for our area schools are just outrageous and it is because of all the student who don't give a flying rat's @$$ about their education and their only real goal is to cause as many problems for everyone else.

Schooldigger.com -- Search and compare elementary, middle, and high schools. For reference on these stats. They are mostly only up to date as of the 2004 school year. But the stats are probably worse now.

I spent my entire schooling in public schools (except half of 3rd grade and all fo 4th grade). I think that had their been less gang activity - there would have been a significantly better level of education. I'm not asking for segregation. I'm asking for enforcement of the policies already in place. Is that really so much to ask? Expulsion is the only key to removing gang violence and other shifty activities from our schools. And maybe, just maybe we could up our numbers a bit if the Board of Education would allow for this kind of punishment for bad behavior.

[tat2me82]

My day care provider has a son in elementary school.. i'm not sure if they're still doing this or not... but the school system gets to choose where your kid goes so that way they can even things out (race wise) a bit i guess.. anywho they said her kid needed to go to sunnyside elementary ( when i went there it was a great school, but that was a longgggg time ago) well when she refused to take her son there because of their test scores, the principal asked her "Are you sure you don't want your son going here because there's alot of mexicans?" My provider said "No your school has one of the lowest scores in Dodge I don't want my son going here" so the principal kept implying that she (my provider) didn't want her son going to Sunnyside because there was "alot of mexicans" My son will never go to the schools here.. I used to be a para at the middle school and that place is so completley out of control!!! I'm sure the high school is the same way... I was told Central Elementary was a good school, but hard to get into. I had a friend that went from Cimarron high school to dodge high school her sophmore year, she said the stuff they were teaching were things she learned in middle school.. she couldn't believe it. Just thought I'd share that since it went w/ the topic

P.S She (daycare provider) ended up taking her son to a school out of this county.

[Made in the USA]

I think this whole thing of sending/bussing kids all over town to "integrate" is a bunch of crap, myself! A kid can live right across the street from a school, yet they bus him clear across town. Waste of taxpayers money, let alone the freedom to go to your own neighborhood school. The schools are darn near 80% hispanic anyway, so what's the big "integration" idea anyway??

[Bubba]

Not to mention the waste in fuel for all of those buses.