Thread: Living In Mexico Going to a US School

Mexican Kids Cross Border Daily For Free U.S. Education
View Discussion Last Updated: Wed, 09/16/2009 - 11:06am

The superintendent of a Texas public school district has deployed staff members to a nearby border crossing to intercept hundreds of Mexican children who enter the U.S. daily to receive a free public education at one of his schools.

For years, Mexican children from nearby Ciudad Acuna have crossed a bridge north to attend public schools in Del Rio Texas as administrators and immigration officials looked the other way. Meanwhile U.S. taxpayers pick up the nearly $3 million annual tab to educate the Mexican kids whose parents have no regard for the nation’s laws.

Finally, the new superintendent of the depleted district (Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District) is working to end the costly practice. He has sent district employees to monitor the border crossing that connects Del Rio with Mexico and inform Mexican parents that essentially the gravy train has come to an abrupt halt.

The district has an enrollment of 10,232 students in 12 schools and more than 500 are believed to live south of the border. They used fake U.S. addresses to enroll illegally, according to district officials, and some walk over the border bridge while others simply have their parents drive them in vehicles with Mexican license plates.

“I’ve seen van loads of kids with plates from Coahuila State (Mexico) pulling in front of the school,â€

This is a link to Great Schools.org.

This lists the area schools both public and private, students, ethnicity, disadantaged (free lunch), test scores, English proficiency. There are a lot of pop ups.

This link is for Laredo,TX Elementary schools.

Check your schools to see how they stack up.

http://www.greatschools.org/cgi-bin/cs_ ... &tab=teach

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