School Hispanic Parent Committee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny how previous decades and generations of immigrants quickly learned English, but the last 30 years of some MoCo immigrants cannot or will not.

Enablement much?

Citation please!
Please present verifiable information that today's immigrants are learning English at a slower pace than immigrants in the past.
Just because they are not learning as fast as YOU want them to than is an opinion, not a fact.
And if you want to speed up the process, then I suggest you volunteer to teach English as a second language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny how previous decades and generations of immigrants quickly learned English, but the last 30 years of some MoCo immigrants cannot or will not.

Enablement much?

My mother will say it's b/c no one catered to them.

However, they also came to this country with trades behind them - and with a fairly solid educational background. They were literate in their OWN language, which meant that picking up English was much easier.

Today's immigrants arrive with few skills and most are NOT literate in their own language.

I know; I teach in a highly impacted school.

[Anonymous]

For all the people complaining, is it really hurting anyone to have these groups, is it taking something away from you .....really??

[Anonymous]

Can we have a whites only committee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how previous decades and generations of immigrants quickly learned English, but the last 30 years of some MoCo immigrants cannot or will not.

Enablement much?

My mother will say it's b/c no one catered to them.

However, they also came to this country with trades behind them - and with a fairly solid educational background. They were literate in their OWN language, which meant that picking up English was much easier.

Today's immigrants arrive with few skills and most are NOT literate in their own language.

I know; I teach in a highly impacted school.

by magic the Asians can learn English

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we have a whites only committee.

Do you also wonder why there's no White History Month, and no White Entertainment Television cable channel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how previous decades and generations of immigrants quickly learned English, but the last 30 years of some MoCo immigrants cannot or will not.

Enablement much?

My mother will say it's b/c no one catered to them.

However, they also came to this country with trades behind them - and with a fairly solid educational background. They were literate in their OWN language, which meant that picking up English was much easier.

Today's immigrants arrive with few skills and most are NOT literate in their own language.

I know; I teach in a highly impacted school.

by magic the Asians can learn English

By magic the Asians learn math and reading way better than the whites. So?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

By magic the Asians learn math and reading way better than the whites. So?

Keeping in mind that the 18 million (or so) Asian-Americans and Asians living in America are a totally homogeneous group.

[Anonymous]

I think there is one troll continually posting, hosting on the fact that for once people were truly trying to have a respectful dialogue in which people were listening TO and learning FROM on another.
Gonna be HATERS!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we have a whites only committee.

so few worry about the plight of the white person. How lucky for us all that you are around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm of two minds on these sorts of things. On the one hand, our ES has Spanish speaking coffees once a month and I think they have really helped a lot of those parents get more involved in the school. On the other hand, the school has parents who speak so many other languages - there are something like 60 different languages spoken at homes of the kids in the school and you don't see Urdu speaking coffees or Swahili speaking coffees, etc...and part of the reason is because those people have had to learn English since moving here whereas the Spanish speakers haven't and I find that frustrating.

Well that is just sad, very , very sad.
Do you realize this country was founded by people who did not speak the language of the natives peoples already occupying this land?
Maybe that is what you are afraid of, a recent immigrant is going to come over and "discover" your house?
If these families are able to participate in these groups as a way of fostering participation in the broader school community, then YIPPEE for them. I don't hold it against them, not jealous of them, don't resent them.
I certainly don't feel as if you have talk just like I do or do EVERYTHING I do to be an American just like me.
You pay your taxes and obey the law, your ok with me, I don't care what your first language is.
But hey, my ancestors came here in chains, what do I know.

Um, maybe she just doesn't want the United States turning into Mexico? I sure don't. There is a reason we have borders but our very liberal government loves welcoming them with open arms and using our tax money to pay for their welfare, subsidized housing, free school with ESOL and FARMS and any other little committee they complain they don't have. It is all for the democratic vote. Casa De Maryland is the dirtiest organization around. They have manipulated the system and if you are against it you are a bigot. Wonderful. You wonder why the education in Montgomery County is going downhill. Look no further to the Spanish who refuse to assimilate, learn our language but want everything handed to them on a silver platter. Including a quick way to get citizenship. The heck with all the other foreigners doing it the legal way. They break a law and STILL have the audacity to cry unfair treatment and we need this and that. I have been to PTA meetings in multiple schools for years. I have never once seen a hispanic family attend or be involved in their child's school or education. The PTA pays wasted dollars on translators and holds these gatherings, extra sheet of every flyer in Spanish etc... It doesn't change a thing. No one every comes or is involved. If you don't want to assimilate or help - then go back to your country and save our tax dollars for our own legal kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm of two minds on these sorts of things. On the one hand, our ES has Spanish speaking coffees once a month and I think they have really helped a lot of those parents get more involved in the school. On the other hand, the school has parents who speak so many other languages - there are something like 60 different languages spoken at homes of the kids in the school and you don't see Urdu speaking coffees or Swahili speaking coffees, etc...and part of the reason is because those people have had to learn English since moving here whereas the Spanish speakers haven't and I find that frustrating.

Well that is just sad, very , very sad.
Do you realize this country was founded by people who did not speak the language of the natives peoples already occupying this land?
Maybe that is what you are afraid of, a recent immigrant is going to come over and "discover" your house?
If these families are able to participate in these groups as a way of fostering participation in the broader school community, then YIPPEE for them. I don't hold it against them, not jealous of them, don't resent them.
I certainly don't feel as if you have talk just like I do or do EVERYTHING I do to be an American just like me.
You pay your taxes and obey the law, your ok with me, I don't care what your first language is.
But hey, my ancestors came here in chains, what do I know.

Um, maybe she just doesn't want the United States turning into Mexico? I sure don't. There is a reason we have borders but our very liberal government loves welcoming them with open arms and using our tax money to pay for their welfare, subsidized housing, free school with ESOL and FARMS and any other little committee they complain they don't have. It is all for the democratic vote. Casa De Maryland is the dirtiest organization around. They have manipulated the system and if you are against it you are a bigot. Wonderful. You wonder why the education in Montgomery County is going downhill. Look no further to the Spanish who refuse to assimilate, learn our language but want everything handed to them on a silver platter. Including a quick way to get citizenship. The heck with all the other foreigners doing it the legal way. They break a law and STILL have the audacity to cry unfair treatment and we need this and that. I have been to PTA meetings in multiple schools for years. I have never once seen a hispanic family attend or be involved in their child's school or education. The PTA pays wasted dollars on translators and holds these gatherings, extra sheet of every flyer in Spanish etc... It doesn't change a thing. No one every comes or is involved. If you don't want to assimilate or help - then go back to your country and save our tax dollars for our own legal kids.

I have no idea what "Casa de Maryland" is or does, but I do know that you sound like a bigot. If you don't like to live in a country built by immigrants over centuries, find another place to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Um, maybe she just doesn't want the United States turning into Mexico? . . . Look no further to the Spanish who refuse to assimilate . . .

There's so much in your post that makes you sound ignorant, but I'll just point out that "Spanish" is a term for people from Spain, not Mexico. They're not all the same. Oh, and can you please tell me which school(s) your kid(s) go to? We're moving soon and I'm hoping to avoid ignorance and hate like the kind you're spouting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm of two minds on these sorts of things. On the one hand, our ES has Spanish speaking coffees once a month and I think they have really helped a lot of those parents get more involved in the school. On the other hand, the school has parents who speak so many other languages - there are something like 60 different languages spoken at homes of the kids in the school and you don't see Urdu speaking coffees or Swahili speaking coffees, etc...and part of the reason is because those people have had to learn English since moving here whereas the Spanish speakers haven't and I find that frustrating.

Well that is just sad, very , very sad.
Do you realize this country was founded by people who did not speak the language of the natives peoples already occupying this land?
Maybe that is what you are afraid of, a recent immigrant is going to come over and "discover" your house?
If these families are able to participate in these groups as a way of fostering participation in the broader school community, then YIPPEE for them. I don't hold it against them, not jealous of them, don't resent them.
I certainly don't feel as if you have talk just like I do or do EVERYTHING I do to be an American just like me.
You pay your taxes and obey the law, your ok with me, I don't care what your first language is.
But hey, my ancestors came here in chains, what do I know.

Um, maybe she just doesn't want the United States turning into Mexico? I sure don't. There is a reason we have borders but our very liberal government loves welcoming them with open arms and using our tax money to pay for their welfare, subsidized housing, free school with ESOL and FARMS and any other little committee they complain they don't have. It is all for the democratic vote. Casa De Maryland is the dirtiest organization around. They have manipulated the system and if you are against it you are a bigot. Wonderful. You wonder why the education in Montgomery County is going downhill. Look no further to the Spanish who refuse to assimilate, learn our language but want everything handed to them on a silver platter. Including a quick way to get citizenship. The heck with all the other foreigners doing it the legal way. They break a law and STILL have the audacity to cry unfair treatment and we need this and that. I have been to PTA meetings in multiple schools for years. I have never once seen a hispanic family attend or be involved in their child's school or education. The PTA pays wasted dollars on translators and holds these gatherings, extra sheet of every flyer in Spanish etc... It doesn't change a thing. No one every comes or is involved. If you don't want to assimilate or help - then go back to your country and save our tax dollars for our own legal kids.

I have no idea what "Casa de Maryland" is or does, but I do know that you sound like a bigot. If you don't like to live in a country built by immigrants over centuries, find another place to live.

So every person that are against illegal aliens are bigots? You are okay with complete open borders? Even Mexico has barbed wire fences in their southern border. Please stop insulting people with the word bigot. Come into the country legally if you want respect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So every person that are against illegal aliens are bigots? You are okay with complete open borders? Even Mexico has barbed wire fences in their southern border. Please stop insulting people with the word bigot. Come into the country legally if you want respect.

I'm not the pp, but in my opinion, what makes this poster a bigot is the assumption that immigrant = "welfare, subsidized housing, free school with ESOL and FARMS" and the assertion that the poster has "never once seen a hispanic family attend or be involved in their child's school or education." I seriously doubt that's true. And if it is, it's more evidence that more outreach efforts are needed. These are kids we're talking about, and they deserve to feel (and have their families feel) included in their schools.