Thread: Principal Sees Injustice, and Picks a Fight With It

Another illegal invader apologist / advocate leading our public school. I think she has forgotten who funds public education in this country.



PHOENIX — One morning last August, Yvonne Watterson, the principal of GateWay Early College High School here, sat in her office, grimly scrolling through the database of its 240 students.

At the behest of a new state law she detested, she looked for which ones listed a Social Security number and which did not. Without a number, it was virtually certain that a child was in America illegally.

Ms. Watterson wound up with 38 names, many of them of boys and girls she had personally recruited to the school. Under the statute popularly known as Proposition 300, illegal immigrants could not receive in-state tuition at public colleges and universities in Arizona. Nor could school administrators like Ms. Watterson use state money to pay it.

GateWay’s students, while still in high school, are able to take courses at a community college in the same building, with in-state tuition paid by the high school. Ms. Watterson knew her students could not afford to pay the out-of-state rate, generally $280 a credit. And without the college classes, there would be less reason to stay in school.

So she made the list and sent letters home and began to call in the affected students one by one to tell them that their tuition was no longer subsidized. A girl named Karla crumpled to her knees in the principal’s office, and said, “But I’m a good person.â€

Yeah they are working hard to make something of themselves based on a lie. Their parents broke the law, blame the parents. They had no business breaking our laws and kids suffer every day because of their parents, it's nothing new. They should be glad they got the education they did for FREE but no all they can do is complain when the FREEBIES end and whine about POOR ME I MIGHT HAVE TO WORK 2 JOBS to AFFORD SCHOOL because in their twisted minds everything is free when in reality it may be free for them as they are law breakers but for regular US CITIZENS we have to pay for everything we have and don't whine when it isn't free.

Again, every one of those kids have every right and opportunity to pursue their dreams of a college education back in their home country for free or for a nominal fee (often less than what it costs American college kids to buy textbooks!). These ingrates have already been the recipients of a free K-12 public school education (something that their own home countries don't provide to foreign nationals living illegally in their countries), free medical care and countless other free benefits/privileges and they've been here long enough to fully take advantage of that without getting deported. There are much more deserving American students who don't get those opportunities and until and unless every American student that wants to go to college...can do so regardless of THEIR economic status...there's should be no admittance and certainly no financial benefits for illegal aliens.

Maybe the Principal should be more concerned about United States Citizens instead of ILLEGALS! If she is more concerned about the ILLEGALS why doesn't she volunteer to go with the ILLEGALS as they return to their "home" countries and work to help them improve.

In the meantime "our" FAMILIES are at the mercy of ILLEGALS and their Anchor Babies being murdered, raped, or robbed. But NOT to worry the Chamber of Commerce will get their "cheap labor", thanks to Bush and the Congressional Leadership, increasing "their privatized" PROFITS!!

[quote]“I don’t wake up every day to steal purses,â€

Her attitude is getting in the way of these kids going home and getting a low cost education.Let them go and stop telling these kids Americans are hatefull racists.It is hurtful to the kids and untrue,it is the parents who are responsible not US Tax Payers

Don' you just love recent immgrants who want to tell Americans how things should be ? Don't compare a unrelated incident in your home country with Illegal Immigration in America as one has NOTHING to do with the other.

I wonder if she was an Illegal in the 80's and was granted Amnesty ?

I don't think she understands what is really happening here. What happens to her job when it's the other way around and she has just 38 Americans, and the school decides she has to be replaced with a Spanish speaking educator? I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for help if I was her. She is feeding the alligator knowing she won't be next, but forgetting she'll be last.

We all have compassion, but I REFUSE to help bring about my own demise. If WHOLE cities are turning into mirror images of Mexico, what happens when the same can be said about whole states. At what point do we reach critical mass and more of this country resembles Latin America than The United States of America? The best thing she can do is encourage those bright young minds to return to their homeland and fight for change in the gov't there. Mexico is the richest country in Latin America so there's no reason the people should feel they have to leave the country they love.

Ironically enough, this teacher is from Ireland, whereby Ireland just recently ended birthright citizenship in that country because of similiar issues with illegal immigration. Funny how she can be critical of the US while ignoring what her motherland had to do because of illegal immigration.

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Ironically enough, this teacher is from Ireland, whereby Ireland just recently ended birthright citizenship in that country because of similiar issues with illegal immigration. Funny how she can be critical of the US while ignoring what her motherland had to do because of illegal immigration.

That's an interesting bit of info. More countries are ending birth right citizenship because they have no choice. It is common knowledge and a huge fact that when third world people illegal enter another country en mass they do not assimilate and are a burden to the country as a whole especially creating an un needed burden on social programs such as education. I haven't heard one country come out and say that an influx of IA has been a positive experience. All I have heard is statistics stating that crime rates are higher, taxes are higher for citizens, hospitals are overwhlemed or closing, and the country is worse off and not prospering.