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Your W school rankings would tank because you would have to deport all the Asians.[/quote]

Do you even know that there are ways to immigrate to US LEGALLY?[/quote]

Probably not, because the people who are anti-"illegals" just see non-white people and start foaming at the mouth about how "those people" are just taking all the resources away from hardworking white people.[/quote]

Yup. A lot of these "illegals" the people are foaming at the mouth about are legal residents or US citizens.[/quote]

Yes, I'm curious how people know the legal status of the kids.  Do you just assume if they don't know how to speak English that they are not legal? Sorry to burst your bubble, but we were legal immigrants back in the 70's and we didn't know a lick of English, and yet here we are, now all my siblings and I are tax paying US citizens.  We vote, are involved in schools, etc..  My parents didn't do those things because, yea, they didn't know English very well.  But they worked hard and provided for us so that we could do these things for our kids.

OP - I really don't think you will find any where in this country where a particular school is representative in its SES makeup of the district if that district has huge income disparities simply because of housing costs.  Unfortunately, SES in large urban areas do seem to fall along racial lines.  So, this is what you are seeing in MCPS. [/quote]

What nationality were you originally? Did you/your kids receive government aid, special tutoring, special ESOL, free lunches?  What level of education did your father have?

Today's ILLEGAL immigrant profile, Adult:  Central America  / Yes, yes yes yes / middle school educated.

Today's LEGAL immigrant profile, Adult:  SE Asia / No, no, no, no / College educated. [/quote]

What does it matter where we came from or whether we had free lunches?  And yes, some of my siblings went to ESL.  I didn't because I was just a toddler when I came here, so my English skills were better than my siblings' by the time I hit ES age.

My point was that some people assume that all those kids that don't speak English (or should I say those that seem to only speak Spanish) are illegals.   My point was.. how the hell can you tell who is illegal and who is not simply by the fact that they don't speak English?

And BTW, my father had a MS education and my mother only an ES level education.  And we are not from SE Asia. So what?  What does that have to do with anything?  They worked themselves to the bone to provide for us.

So, it's ok if someone is illegal, but can speak English and has a college diploma, but it's not ok if the illegal is perceived to be uneducated and can't speak English because these people take from taxpayers whereas the other types of illegals don't?  Ha!  I knew a white family who were illegal immigrants, and living in a very white area, kids going to a very affluent white school, taking away precious resources from this school.  The woman worked in my company.  People knew about her status, and yet, no one batted an eye at work about it.  Why is that?  Because she's white?  Oh, and she and her family eventually got her greencard.  She is now an executive at the company.  [/quote]

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