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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My bad, I guess there are 100 students instead of teachers. But either way, I don't understand the need to have them here in this County. There's a difference between educating people who speak a different language when they come to some degree verses advertising that "our county is the best at educating foreigners, so please everyone come to our county and we'll educate you even better than we educate our own citizens." [/quote]

I said we NEED them in our COUNTRY -- not specifically in our county.  Our COUNTRY needs more young workers to off-set the number of older people who are retiring and getting benefits.  It's a demographic problem that immigration and Hispanic births are helping solve.  Sure, everybody wants the cheapest solution to the aging population and that would be high-SES babies who speak English... but we don't have that.  So, why not embrace the solutions that are presenting themselves and make sure these kids end up contributing to society and enriching it with their culture, rather than having them drop out, commit crimes to get income, and end up in jail.  IF you marginalize people, they will end up costing you a lot more than a few ESOL teachers and reading specialists.  I don't look at ESOL kids or immigrants as less valuable than English-speaking people.... they are just further behind but they have the potential to catch up and be part of OUR American dream.  Someday YOU (or your kids) may need more services than I would prefer to pay for -- but that's o.k.  Sometimes we are takers, sometimes we are givers.  It's part of being in a community.

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