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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain the opposition?  [/quote]

No one wants an influx of poorly educated children concentrating in their neighborhood schools once they are released. No one wants to say it but they take up a lot of resources and it's well known that the sponsors they're going to are concentrated in certain areas.[/quote]

This is not it. [b]The zoned schools are already Title I, heavily populated with children of low-income immigrants[/b].

IMO, DC doesn’t want to be a part of the abuse of children- and much of what we have learned from these facilities is that they are not well-run and are abusive for the children. We do not trust the Trump administration on treating immigrants humanely.[/quote]

Exactly the point. The schools are already struggling. Dumping 200+ more kids with high needs into the the same schools for the foreseeable future will not help dig them out of that rut. DC is already known and lambasted for its horrible schools. [/quote]

These children are not integrated into local schools. They bring in their own teachers and provide all educational services on site. [/quote]

One of the reasons they want to build a shelter in this area is because the family members the kids are reuniting with live here, so yes, when they are released from the shelter they will be going to public schools.  As was stated before these immigrant communities are clustered so concentrated poverty and extreme need for resources will devastate already struggling areas/schools.[/quote]

Spare me. It's a few hundred kids.  I think we can handle it.  If not, you can just sit down while the people who care figure it out.  [/quote]

Our suburban high school in MD took 40 kids in 2014.  It wasn't easy at all, as schools reallocated funding by moving money into ESOL classes.  lots of fights after that . . .

A "few hundred kids" isn't a drop in the bucket, especially since many will attend high-poverty, overcrowded schools. [/quote]

+1 clearly some posters want to fire off with out really knowing what they're talking about as evidenced in several posts over the last few pages.[/quote]

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