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It is a requirement in border towns. But you get kids living with relatives in the district or claiming to live with relatives in the district. In both cases the children are US citizens or legal residents. Illegals don't cross the border everyday to go to school - 100% risk of being caught.
Did you read the thread beginning link? For some reason it appears that there were hundreds of kids walking across that bridge daily. You need to read links, especially those that start threads. That is a good way to avoid embarrassment, as I once found out.
How is this extremist? They are following the law. They are illegals. Why should our students suffer because illegal children who don't speak English bring down the quality of education because half the class doesn't have a grasp of the English language. I live in Arizona and our education system is mocked for being poor. This is largely due to the large immigrant population that persists in our weaker public schools. The children don't speak English so the teachers can't offer an advanced curriculum. These immigrants also bring down test scores so it reflects poorly on our state.
What this will do is deter more families from moving here knowing their kids won't receive a free education like they did in the past. The same should be applied to health services
What most of these people don't understand is that throwing in all those illegals really does weaken programs. They don't live close enough to places where the problem exists as you say.
I live very near to Dodge City, Ks. which is a place that oldsters know about because of the TV "Gunsmoke" show. Anyway that is in southwestern Kansas and there are three large meat packing plants there along with some very large cattle feeding lots that employ mostly Mexicans in all the places. How many are illegal, I don't know, but they have only one high school in the town, one of the largest high schools in the state, and it is more than 1/2 Mexican students. Money for ESL students, money for trying to teach them students, money for the ones who are considered special education and so on. If most people who have lived there knew how much is spent on those illegals they would be sick.
There is a new casino getting ready to open there and I think there is a good chance that many of the employees will be illegals because they work cheaper.
Did you read the thread beginning link? For some reason it appears that there were hundreds of kids walking across that bridge daily. You need to read links, especially those that start threads. That is a good way to avoid embarrassment, as I once found out.
Yes - as I wrote - they claim to live in the district but are actually US citizens or US legal residents living in Mexico. It's not uncommon in sister cities on the border for people (Americans & Mexicans) to commute in both directions.
They can be in poverty in their own country, not ours.
Our kids are getting hurt by the illegals being here, they are filling up classrooms that are suppose to have 20-22 kids and now are jamming 30-35 kids per classroom. Many of them illegal criminal kids.
This hurts the REAL citizens of the US, so deport them all, every one of them who are here illegally.
Prove you belong here or go home.
Completely agree. Dont even bother to read Idahogie. His only goal is to try and agitate you by name calling. He is so full of anger that he is incapable of arguing the points. I would put him on ignore if there was an ignore feature on this board.
I can't believe that any US Citizen would not want to be sure that OUR children are getting what WE pay for. I know where I live we have at least 30% of the kids in our schools that do not live in this town. Just the other night it was back to school night, I live walking distance from the elementary school and I was waiting outside for my husband to come out so we could walk to the school. A car stops and a woman inside asks me where the elementary school is. I couldn't believe it. She was obviously NOT from our town but had her kid in the school. We have 6 kindergarten classes with over 22 kids in each class, it is sad because all the kids that actually live here get less then they would if those kids were not in the school.
I'm sorry, the Superintendent was straight forward to the point. He follows the rule. Our public school is for Texas residents only (does not matter if citizen or permanent). These activists are cried baby. They probably the outlaws.
i my area you have to have proof of residency to go to a school within that school district.I see no difference. School tax by residence in most areas are the higheest taxes locally.So what do their parents pay exactly?
Another case of short-sighted policy driven by extremism and jingoism.
As long as the school system is being paid for teaching them (where I live the school district is paid through attendance), then there should be no problem teaching children who want to learn. What we get back in a better-educated population and goodwill make the effort worthwhile.
Instead, these kids will have no future and will be limited to lives marked by poverty. I guess they have futures as drug cartel members or as coyotes. But I guess that's OK because these kids were born on the wrong side of a bureaucratic line.
Not the problem of the US to educate citizens of other countries. You want to help them with YOUR money more power to you. Just quit forcing me to pay for it with MY money.
Want to weaken the drug cartels, legalize marijuana.
This is so silly. What's wrong with wanting proof of age, and citizenship to be allowed into a school ? People who are "pro illegal" parasites get all "knee jerkish" because little Juan and Consuelo tresspassers can't get free educations paid for by John and Mary taxpayer. John and Mary are depicted as "selfish heartless, evil," etc. because they are "racist, and hate children."
Amen to that! About dang time somebody stood and did something
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