Fairfax County Public Schools -- Article on Demographic Changes

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Anonymous wrote:Great post 8:14! I'm so glad to see posts like yours countering the other posters.

That's because education outshines ignorance!

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17:21 How did the Irish take more than their share at the time? They even started their own schools on their own.

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Democrats want new immigrants to come in and vote for them. I'm not sure there's much more benevolence above this. Even with immigration reform, I'd be hesitant to say that would be the end of illegal immigration. Without penalties, there's nothing stopping people to keep coming other than natural consequences of no jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are stupid , immigrants are great, illegal immigrants which are esol wic and farms are terrible

These posts are ugly. Illegal immigrants are a fact of life in the United States.

So are drugs, but I sure as hell am not about to lie down and ignore them.

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Anonymous wrote:I highly doubt many hispanics at the FCPS are immigrants, let alone illegal. 95% were probably born here. Their parents, on the other hand, are a different story. So assuming these children are US citizens, damn right they are entitled to a public school education regardless of their parents' choices.

Cry me a river. 140 mil in debt, and we have to educate anchor babies. Laws were made to be amended, and the anchor baby law needs to go.

Anti-immigrant person, I feel bad that you have to live with all of the hatred that you have inside yourself. How do you function each day with such animosity towards a group of people. There is nothing that anyone can say that will change your mind, it's like trying to argue with the KKK. Actually, if you were living back then you would probably be in favor of racial segregation for the same reasons you are against immigrants. In the end we are all humans and we are all going to die. I would like to live my life showing compassion towards people, not hatred and, I want to set that as an example for my children. No child should have to grow up in a house where her parents are full of anger.

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"we are a great country and have been able to assimilate people from all kinds of backgrounds, from all parts of the world, because we’ve emphasized a shared language, a common tradition, an understanding of what it is -- look, with all the respect, there’s no Filipino dream, there’s no Japanese dream, there’s no Italian dream. But there is an American dream.
And some guys standing on a street corner in Addis Ababa knows what it is about. It’s being able to come here and dream big and work hard and get what you want and have a good life for your family because you have done the right thing."

-- Karl Rove

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Anonymous wrote:Great post 8:14! I'm so glad to see posts like yours countering the other posters.

Thanks. Proud to be among the 40 percent of the American population whose ancestors passed through Ellis Island.

Oh, how precious..
What did you do other than being born with a silver spoon in your mouth? Disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you are out of the workforce for 7+ years, it's very very difficult to get back in. The market/system is not very flexible unless you are in a field like teaching or nursing. What we really need is a year of maternity/paternity leave and better access to nursery schools. If that was the case, it would be a lot easier for qualified women to get back into the workforce and contribute to the Soc. Sec. pool.

Like the rest of the civilized world. Or, shall we say, 'the civilized world'.
Except that Republicans in this country will never allow that to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:I highly doubt many hispanics at the FCPS are immigrants, let alone illegal. 95% were probably born here. Their parents, on the other hand, are a different story. So assuming these children are US citizens, damn right they are entitled to a public school education regardless of their parents' choices.

Cry me a river. 140 mil in debt, and we have to educate anchor babies. Laws were made to be amended, and the anchor baby law needs to go.

You said it, PP. Laws were made to be amended. That's exactly how I feel about Second amendment and your previous right to bear arms.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I highly doubt many hispanics at the FCPS are immigrants, let alone illegal. 95% were probably born here. Their parents, on the other hand, are a different story. So assuming these children are US citizens, damn right they are entitled to a public school education regardless of their parents' choices.

Cry me a river. 140 mil in debt, and we have to educate anchor babies. Laws were made to be amended, and the anchor baby law needs to go.

You said it, PP. Laws were made to be amended. That's exactly how I feel about Second amendment and your previous right to bear arms.

Does the second amendment use up your tax dollars and takeaway resources from your children?

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Anonymous wrote:Democrats want new immigrants to come in and vote for them. I'm not sure there's much more benevolence above this. Even with immigration reform, I'd be hesitant to say that would be the end of illegal immigration. Without penalties, there's nothing stopping people to keep coming other than natural consequences of no jobs.

C'mon. Both parties want the Hispanic vote. That comment is just dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:17:21 How did the Irish take more than their share at the time? They even started their own schools on their own.

What, in your opinion, is an immigrants "fair share?" Show me, with hard statistics, where these immigrants - legal or undocumented - are taking more of their share of resources than they are putting back in by the work they put in by the sweat of their brow? I do not want anecdotes. I want hard, empirical evidence. If you don't have that. You have no argument.

However, this is what I can say. Reading contemporary accounts attitudes towards the Irish immigrants coming to America during the time of the An Gorta Mor, I very much see the same attitudes displayed by America's WASP forbears being displayed by our anti-immigrant PP. As I wrote, "plus ce change plus ce la meme chose." The immigrants who came to American in the past, and those who arrive today are seeking the same economic opportunity my Irish and Polish ancestors sought by coming here. On my street, I believe we may one of the few actual "white" families, except for the "rednecks" two doors down. My immediate neighbors are from Mexico, El Salvador, Vietnam and India. Every single one of them are hard-working, contributing members of the community. Three of them own their own businesses. I welcome them and others like them as my neighbors and would much rather live next them that PP ignorant bigot. In fact, they are the kind of hard-working, family values people the GOP should be courting instead of trying voter suppression tactics as they are in Texas, Florida and North Carolina.

Perhaps, too I am very comfortable with living among large numbers of immigrants. In addition to spending time with my Polish working class great-grand parents and grand-parents, speaking Polish, my hometown - Miami - has been at the forefront of absorbing America's latest immigration wave for over 40 years now. 54 percent of the population of Miami-Dade County is foreign born. The city is bi-lingual and is more or less the business, financial and cultural capital for much of Latin America and the Caribbean. What was once a sleepy southern beach town is now a major international city. South Beach, which was a slum when I was a boy, is now a hot international tourist destination for the international trend set. When I was in high school, there were "Will the last American to leave Miami please bring the flag?" bumper stickers on cars. I think we have moved on from this. We absorbed the best and brightest of another country after the Cuban Revolution and they made it possible for the Marielitos and later waves of immigrants from other countries of LA and the Caribbean to find a home in our great city. I love going back to visit and it has a palable energy and vibe about it that is like no where else in the United States.

My daughter attended both a high ESOL/FARMS elementary school and a high ESOL/FARMS and she is more than fine. In fact, when we moved here in 2008 after living in Russia, Ukraine (my wife's birthplace), Ethiopia, Kenya and Korea my daughter remarked that she felt right at home because everyone was "just like her - from somewhere else."

As to being born with a silver spoon in my mouth, no one handed me a thing. I am a third - generation American, and the first on my mother's side of the family to attend college.

Finally, there are Hispanic families in this country who have been here much longer than any descendents of Americans who settled Jamestown or came on the Mayflower. The oldest permanently inhabited European settlements in the United States are Saint Augustine, Florida - founded in 1565 - and Santa Fe, New Mexico - founded in 1607. I have not counted San Juan, PR, since Puerto Rico is not a state. But San Juan was founded in 1521.

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The idea the "No Irish Need Apply" signs were plentiful in America is apparently somewhat of a myth. They were actually more common in London.

After 1860 many Irish sang songs about signs reading "HELP WANTED – NO IRISH NEED APPLY"; these signs came to be known as "NINA signs." (This is sometimes written as "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY" and referred to as "INNA signs").[5] The 1862 song, "No Irish Need Apply", was inspired by NINA signs in London. Later Irish Americans adapted the lyrics, and the songs perpetuated the belief among Irish Americans that they were discriminated against.[5]
Historians have hotly debated the issue of anti-Irish job discrimination in the United States. Some insist that the "No Irish need apply" signs were common, but one scholar, Richard Jensen, argues that anti-Irish job discrimination was not a significant factor in the United States, these signs and print advertisements being most commonly posted by the limited number of early 19th-century English immigrants to the United States who shared the prejudices of their homeland.[5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment

Irish immigrants did lead hard lives, but not because people refused to hire them for menial jobs. In fact, menial jobs were about the only ones open to them.

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NINA is my Internet handle. Good to see you can read the wikipedia, just like Rand Paul! : )