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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You'd be wrong.  Our school has &gt; 90% FARMS.  &gt; 50% ESOL.  And it's not a cake walk.  It's not all working out just fine.  We're planning to move to a better school district because of it.  But talking about a group of people as if they alone are to blame for poverty and language barriers isn't helpful.  Why do you have more of a right to access public education than any of those families?  For me it's not enough to say that because a child's parents violated immigration laws, we ought to feel resentful towards them and treat them like they're stealing all of our public services.  Maybe we disagree on that point, but to me that is what feels like race-baiting.  Talking about who pays what in taxes and who's a freeloader etc. - that's where it starts to feel like hate and seems to be drifting away from the underlying issue of how to deal with population growth and poverty in a compassionate way.  And I totally agree that it has an undeniable impact on the schools.  I'm not pretending it doesn't.  But please can we stop with the finger pointing about who is wrongfully availing themselves of public services. [/quote]

This is a lovely and compassionate post.[/quote]

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