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Despite law, hundreds of students living in Mexico attend U.S. schools
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Students living in northern Mexico have skirted residency requirements to attend U.S. public schools for generations, but when the superintendent in one Texas border town got word that about 400 school-age children were crossing the international bridge each day with backpacks but no student visas, he figured he had to do something.
I dont think thats different than any other location. I have to prove I own property in every city I "live", in order to send my children to school there.
If Texas residency is a requirement for attending schools there, then you know someone has an agenda to make an issue about it. There shouldn't be any problem with that superintendent's action.
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.
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.
Paid by whom? Schools here are funded through taxing property ownership alone.
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