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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP- my neighborhood school is 65% low income and ESOL, mostly Hispanic. They can’t all be the children of corporate employees or have been here for x generations.
It does look like an invasion, neighborhood families (the ones who have been here for many years in fact) rarely send their kids to this school. [/quote]

How exactly does it "look like an invasion"?[/quote]

Middle class families don’t find the teaching rigorous enough. Tons of time spent on discipline and remedial instruction. Very few afterschool activities because nobody wants to organize them and/or pay for them. 
Basically, this school now “belongs” to low income ESOL students. They are the focus. [/quote]

OMGERD!! PEOPLE SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL!!! PANIC!!! 
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Their kids need free lunches, therapy, remedial instruction, ESOL services, free aftercare, free enrichment. 
Guess what, kids who come from generational poverty and are US citizens, and descendants of slaves, need it all, too! 
And guess what, middle class kids of citizens and LEGAL immigrants need enrichment (which they cannot get because the school leadership refuses to invite vendors unless they accommodate free lunch kids).

Middle class kids need quality instruction, and more than a handful of parents volunteering for more than a handful of events.

[b]They also need teachers who are not stretched thin. [/b]
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This is why people move to the outer burbs - or other counties farther out.  And yes, teachers are stretched thin and are no good to themselves or others at that point.  I saw the changes in the classroom, and I saw the impact on my own children's education.  If you ignore these issues, they only grow, and that's what the impacted counties are doing - ignoring the issues at the expense of the kids (native born and children of naturalized citizens) who want to learn.

It sounds so ugly, but it's the truth.  And for those of you who have no experience in the school system or with social programs, I'd LOVE to hear your solutions.  I really would . . . as I'd love a good laugh.

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Pay teachers more and increase budgets so there are more faculty. Part of the stretching thin is barebones staff as compared to the 1950's when America was supposedly great.[/quote]

+1000

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I see, your solution is to have American citizens pay even MORE taxes for people who are not citizens, pay very little if any in taxes and have broken the law to be here.  Americans are responsible for educating their own kids, not Mexico's (and not Honduras or Guatemala)  We can not be on the hook for paying for every illegal immigrant whose kids inftrate our schools.

My kids school in just 5 short years has shot up to 40% ESOL immigrant from less than 3%.  The immigrants soak up a majority of resources and get extras the American citizen kids don't get (special ESOL field trips, extra support and tutoring in the classroom, etc)  I volunteer and see it constantly.  It is disgraceful.  There is enough money already for the American kids, no need for more taxes and more burdens on Americans.  It's our Sanctuary status and the influx of their kids that is breaking our schools.

Enough already, Libs.  We see you.[/quote]

You are just making shit up. I doubt you even have any kids in school. [/quote]

NP. That all you got? Open your damn eyes and see how many illegal immigrants are here in the DMV! [/quote]

I see immigrants working and paying taxes and contributing to the community. I see their kids going to school and preparing to do the same.

You seem to assume that every Latino is here illegally and is getting a free ride. You are bigots. [/quote]

Sanctuary cities and counties say they are. No papers needed for school enrollment say they are. [/quote]

That does not make any sense. Neither of those are evidence for your assumptions that all or almost all Latinos are undocumented and are living on government assistance. Neither of those things are  true. [/quote]

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