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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very true. I have worked for MCPS for over 25 years and the demographics have changed dramatically. Not only does it effect our schools, it trickles down to Headstart, Child Find and Infants and Toddlers. We need interpreters for meetings, papers that legally need to be translated and there is a larger number of special education services that are being needed at an early age. We have a lot of resources in Montgomery County for early intervention and people are coming to use those services.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop allowing criminals with “emotional disabilities” and illegal immigrant parents in our schools.

Do this and you will reclaim at least 1/3 of the budget.

Let the prisons pay for them. [/quote]

It isn’t PC, but this is a fair point.  There is a lot of money going towards this population and there is a limited budget.  The influx of undocumented immigrants has clearly had an effect on the MCPS budget and needs to be addressed.  You can’t have a legit conversation about the financial situation without discussing this aspect of it.  [/quote]

It’s hard to have a conversation about this because it’s fraught with strong emotions on both sides. It’s a conversation we need to have.[/quote]

Emotions are not why this is a hard conversation to have. It's a hard conversation to have because one side wants a unicorn and one side is aware that unicorns do not exist.

That is, one side would like to stop educating undocumented immigrants and the other side is aware that educating all children is a federal and legal mandate.[/quote]

No, the unicorn is expecting MCPS schools to absorb hundreds of thousands of poor, non-English speaking students from all over the world (not just Latin America at this point) and expect good results.  That simply cannot happen and our teachers and schools are clearly overwhelmed by the influx.

You can keep pretending that this has not affected our schools and that it doesn’t cost exorbitant amounts of money, but that is simply not realistic.

Our political leaders have made decisions that have led us to this situation, where our schools and neighborhoods are overwhelmed.  That needs to be discussed.  [/quote][/quote]

I am genuinely irritated at all the expense being spent on interpreters. Why is this an entitlement? How much could be cut if we stopped doing that? If we stopped having to pay bilingual contractors to sit through IEP meetings or to attend every Infants and Toddlers visit, or to translate documents for exorbitant fees? Come here and use public resources AND don't bother to learn any English or feel any obligation to facilitate your own interaction with the system that you are taking services from? It's a bridge too far. I would never in a million years move to, say, France, and expect French taxpayers to fund English-speaking interpreters for me. What other countries do this? It really adds up. [/quote]

It’s kind of crazy because our school is required to send out notices in multiple languages (not just Spanish) because we have parents from all over the world.  We have a large population of students/families from another country (again, they don’t speak Spanish) and it can be challenge to communicate with the parents.  It definitely requires more time, energy and money if we have to get a translator.  [/quote]

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