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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I have no issue with legal immigrants.  My only beef with illegal aliens is that they use resources.  Even acknowledging that illegal aliens only make up approximately 50% of the ESOL or FARMS programs, the point is that without those students, there will be more money to go around.  The point is that illegal aliens are diluting a rapidly stretched and thinning school budget.  For citizen and legal immigrant students, the presense of the illegal aliens is taking valuable school resources to address.  The number of ESOL classes is expanding and the number of mouths to feed at the school district expense is rising.  If you eliminated 18,000 children from using school resources, then the amount of money per student would go up.  If you were paying fewer ESOL teachers and spending less money on FARMS subsidies, that money could go into more resources, books, computers, and other teaching aids for the remaining majority of the students in the school district.  Class sizes have been growing consistently to the point that students are receiving less attention from teachers.  If you eliminated illegals, and reduced the number of ESOL classes, you could use the space and teachers to teach other classes.  You could spread the same children out over one more classroom and decrease the student:teacher ratio which is good for the remaining student body.  We're not talking about eliminating all ESOL or FARMS.  The children who will likely benefit the most are the legal immigrant aliens.  The ESOL classes are the most crowded.  If you can get the ESOL student:teacher ratio significantly decreased, these children have the best change to learn more and faster and incorporate into regularly school programming faster.  Right now, you are sacrificing the students whose family came here legally to protect the families who came here illegally by dividing up the resources devoted to the legal immigrant community.  That's just not right.

As someone whose parents came here legally many years ago, I sympathize with the illegal alien population who are trying to improve their lot in life, but I resent the fact that this country promises so much to the legal immigrant community, but those benefits and promises are diluted so much to provide for the illegal aliens.[/quote]

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