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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]multiculturalism is a big problem.  It doesn't work[/quote]

Multiculturism is what made America Great. [/quote]

And, it is.  However, in most cases, the cultures adapted to us.  Today, it seems we must adapt to them.  I am, of course, not addressing the indigenous tribes.  That was a travesty, but they were not always very nice to each other, either.[/quote]

Someone who doesn’t know much about American history and assimilation.

Tell me why my [b]European ancestors used their native language for several generations [/b]after moving here? And it wasn’t English. They used it in school, their newspapers, in church.  My great-grandmother’s primer is in this language.

American culture is constantly changing. That might be scary to some, but it’s not necessarily negative. Cultures just stagnate die.[/quote]

Were they German who landed in Pennsylvania?  Swiss speaking German?  Swedes in Delaware?  I mean landed here legally in the 1600 and 1700's pre French and Indian War.   There were issues based on volumes of Germans not knowing English.  That was rectfied in the 1700's.  Perhaps some French in Maine but you can check back on census data if people spoke English.  Honestly we had grandparents and great grandparents from Europe and they spoke accented English.   You'd have to go back centuries.

Plus the Eastern Europeans often lived in neighborhoods with others and there were many languages spoken. [ Chicago and Polish might be an exception]Note the country of origin changes on census data for many European countries of origin.

So bottom line was in the 1700's we went through the press 2 for German.  That stopped.  Now we have press 2 for Spanish.  Note the dialects do present difficulty for public schools.  Plus many illegals are not literate in their own language.

On taxes.  Office of Refugee Resettlement provides information on release of unaccompanied minors since each must be released to a sponsor.  Fiscal year 2017:

PG= 1056. Fairfax =971.  MOCO=782. One year only.  The feds pay about $70/ student.  These are only undocs accounted for but each number for 1 year = a school building.   PG and FX over 4 years got 2 high schools worth or 1 high school and 2 middle schools.   Small class sizes and social services and additional school capacity are not covered by the $70/student annually.

If a developer build new construction that yielded 5000 students in a 4 year period each jurisdiction would have gone ballistic.

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