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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION EDUCATION MELTDOWN IN AMERICA
Posted on Monday, January 10 @ 11:05:45 EST
Topic: Frosty Woolridge
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 By Frosty Wooldridge
www.newswithviews.com
January 10, 2005
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade
attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand
English--or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if
those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the
American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to
that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a
parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's
what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.
Unfortunately, more problems exist in America's classrooms than an
invasion of illegal alien children. As a former classroom teacher, I
compassionately say: first, it's not their fault. Second, they can't help
their parents breaking into our country. Third, their problems multiply
our problems into educational failure for our children. Fourth, illegal
alien parents pay little into the tax infrastructure to fund that
education.
The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC, estimates a minimum
of 1.1 million illegal alien children attend American schools. The great
majority of them cannot and do not speak English. English as a Second
Language classes cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The cost of
educating California's three million illegal aliens with their children
exceeds $2.2 billion annually. It may be noted that over 100 languages
must be dealt with in that state. (Source: California Department of
Education) California supports the most illegals and suffers the greatest
state debt at $38 billion.
Move over to Colorado with 200,000 illegal aliens and they suffer a
$140.6 million annual cost for educating illegal alien children. (Source:
Colorado Department of Education) Take a swing over to Georgia where it
costs their citizens $230 billion annually for educating their illegal
alien student population.
As a former classroom teacher, there is another problem seldom
appreciated by parents and politicians. You can't teach 'up' to the
standards of American education with a small number of illegal children
who can't speak English. You must teach 'down' or 'dumb down' the
classroom experience for all your students. No matter how well meaning we
are trying to educate foreign students who can't or won't speak English,
they pour into classrooms faster than it is possible to absorb them into
our national language. Their parents can't help them because their
parents are functionally illiterate or cannot speak English in most
cases. It's why you see test scores dropping across the land. Many kids
are 'promoted' out of high school without the ability to read, write or
think at the most elementary levels.
The crisis has reached epidemic proportions in California, so much so,
well over half the 16 year olds (Source: LA Times newspaper) cannot
understand a city bus schedule or pass a driver's license test. Why? They
can't read. In Colorado, three years ago, 51 percent of the potential
high school graduating class of the Denver Public Schools flunked out or
dropped out. Not only that, the classroom experience for all students
degrades down to negative educational disasters. That's why, according to
the Rocky Mountain News, December 2004, one in five teachers quits or
transfers out of the inner city. The reason is, as a former teacher
myself, when you try teaching in such a chaotic and undisciplined
classroom, it's depressing and futile beyond comprehension. I taught two
years in the 'inner city' and fled for my own emotional health. The
teachers that stay, simply 'numb' their way through the day.
In Austin, Minnesota, they feature a day care center for unwed mothers
attending high school. The flunkout rates, drug problems and overall
classroom experiences have deteriorated to Third World levels. Why? The
meatpacking plants imported over 2,000 illegal aliens and their children
now dominate the Austin classrooms into an educational nightmare.
Another crisis prevents a solid education for American children and
terrifies parents across the country. Since 15 million illegal aliens now
operate in the United States, (Source: Time Magazine, September 2004),
they have crossed our borders without a health screening. Their children
crossed with them. In the past five years, over 16,000 new cases of
tuberculosis have crossed over from Mexico. It's called multi-drug
resistant myco-bacterium TB and it kills two million people worldwide
annually. Last fall a year ago, 30 kids tested positive along with four
teachers in a small town north of Detroit, Michigan. But if you watch the
newspapers, you'll see new cases of TB popping up like toast all across
the country. It's a ticking time bomb because illegal alien children may
carry the disease and infect your kids.
Another disease carried into our schools is hepatitis 'A' and over
100,000 cases have migrated into our country from illegal aliens. The
problem isâ€"illegal aliens from Third World countries do not practice the
same hygiene and personal sanitation habits we have fostered in our First
World country. They often won't visit health authorities because they
don't want to get caught. If your child sits in a classroom with illegal
aliens, your child is at risk and so are you.
Worse, in the past five years, 7,000 new cases of leprosy (Source:
Hansen's Disease, Lerner, NY Times 2/20/03) have migrated into the USA
from illegal aliens from India, Brazil and the Caribbean. It's now
endemic to the East Coast for the first time in the history of the United
States. If your child interacts with an illegal alien child carrying
leprosy, your child may come home with a new case of this ancient
disease.
However, the worst aspect of this national educational crisis stems from
the fact that millions of these illegals are not absorbing into the
American way of life. They have no intention of speaking English or
learning our ways. Do we want a divided country, a violent and uneducated
underclass, a loss of a cohesive language and our own children dumbed
down?
What does that yield? It gives us a frightening harvest of illiterate,
uneducated, antagonistic and non-invested young people exploding into our
society with no academic skills. That's WHY the Third World suffers what
it suffers: lack of an educated citizenry. Further, it also fosters
separation from those who speak English and pursue educational goals
versus millions who have babies out of wedlock, no working skills,
non-English speaking and an uncanny ability to ride welfare rolls with
unprecedented talent.
Finally, this Republic is a delicate form of governance. Yes, democracy
is terribly delicate and one glimpse around the world will show you why.
It requires four qualities to remain viable and functioning. First, it
needs a highly educated population that can participate in its
continuance. Second, it needs a population with a similar moral code.
Third, it demands a citizenry with a similar ethical system of conduct.
Finally, it needs a nation that speaks the same language so it can
discuss, debate and vote intelligently as it pulls in the same direction.
We are losing all four qualities faster than you can count to ten.
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Frosty Wooldridge is a teacher and author who has bicycled 100,000 miles
on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly. His explosive
new book is: "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES."
Copies may be obtained: 1 888 280 7715 www.frostywooldridge.com
Wooldridge is a Senior Writing Fellow for Californians for Population
Stabilization.
I've read enough. I'm ready to join the fight against illegal immigration.
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