Rec'd this today as an email. Living in southern CA I can understand this teacher's frustration. I saw a mother eating her child's free breakfast one morning at school too which really rubbed me wrong and that was years ago.



From an American school teacher - - -

"As you listen to the news about the student protests over
illegal immigration there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at
a large southern California high school which is designated a

Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower

socio-economic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about-South Gate High, Bell
Gardens, Huntington Park, etc.-where these students are protesting,

are also Title 1 schools.

One hundred percent of the students in this school and other
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.
When I say free breakfast I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll --
but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would
make a Marriott proud.

The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it
being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at
least moderately overweight.
About 75% or more DO have cell phones.

The school also provides day care centers for the unwed

teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend

class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters

or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing
funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for
anything; my budget was already substantial.

I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center; half
of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the
appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a
free education in America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)

I have had to intervene several times for young and
substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant
students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so

much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores) and

throwing things that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc.
Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but
to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To my bleeding-heart friends who want to point out how much
these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE
their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes:
spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see

the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, Medical facilities closing, higher medical
costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools,
overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc., etc.
For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster
because we won't have the guts to enforce it.

Does anyone in their right mind really think they will
voluntarily leave and return?

There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute
to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We
should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right
and legal way.

It does, however, have everything to do with culture:

A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts
children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that
refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak
and worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will
to do anything about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to
everyone you know."