- How would you like your child in kindergarten through
12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or
understand English--or American education values? Furthermore, how would
you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English
and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed
down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if
you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America,
that's
what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.
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- Unfortunately, more problems exist in America's
classrooms
than an invasion of illegal alien children. As a former classroom teacher,
I compassionately say: first, it's not their fault. Second, they can't
help their parents breaking into our country. Third, their problems
multiply
our problems into educational failure for our children. Fourth, illegal
alien parents pay little into the tax infrastructure to fund that
education.
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- The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC,
estimates a minimum of 1.1 million illegal alien children attend American
schools. The great majority of them cannot and do not speak English.
English
as a Second Language classes cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The cost
of educating California's three million illegal aliens with their children
exceeds $2.2 billion annually. It may be noted that over 100 languages
must be dealt with in that state. (Source: California Department of
Education)
California supports the most illegals and suffers the greatest state debt
at $38 billion.
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- Move over to Colorado with 200,000 illegal aliens and
they suffer a $140.6 million annual cost for educating illegal alien
children.
(Source: Colorado Department of Education) Take a swing over to Georgia
where it costs their citizens $230 billion annually for educating their
illegal alien student population.
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- As a former classroom teacher, there is another problem
seldom appreciated by parents and politicians. You can't teach up, to the
standards of American education with a small number of illegal children
who can't speak English. You must teach down, or dumb down, the classroom
experience for all your students. No matter how well meaning we are trying
to educate foreign students who can't or won't speak English, they pour
into classrooms faster than it is possible to absorb them into our national
language. Their parents can't help them because their parents are
functionally
illiterate or cannot speak English in most cases. It's why you see test
scores dropping across the land. Many kids are promoted, out of high school
without the ability to read, write or think at the most elementary
levels.
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- The crisis has reached epidemic proportions in
California,
so much so, well over half the 16 year olds (Source: LA Times newspaper)
cannot understand a city bus schedule or pass a driver's license test.
Why? They can't read. In Colorado, three years ago, 51 percent of the
potential high school graduating class of the Denver Public Schools flunked
out or dropped out. Not only that, the classroom experience for all
students
degrades down to negative educational disasters. That's why, according
to the Rocky Mountain News, December 2004, one in five teachers quits or
transfers out of the inner city. The reason is, as a former teacher myself,
when you try teaching in such a chaotic and undisciplined classroom, it's
depressing and futile beyond comprehension. I taught two years in the inner
city, and fled for my own emotional health. The teachers that stay, simply
numb, their way through the day.
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- In Austin, Minnesota, they feature a day care center
for unwed mothers attending high school. The flunkout rates, drug problems
and overall classroom experiences have deteriorated to Third World levels.
Why? The meatpacking plants imported over 2,000 illegal aliens and their
children now dominate the Austin classrooms into an educational
nightmare.
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- Another crisis prevents a solid education for American
children and terrifies parents across the country. Since 15 million illegal
aliens now operate in the United States, (Source: Time Magazine, September
2004), they have crossed our borders without a health screening. Their
children crossed with them. In the past five years, over 16,000 new cases
of tuberculosis have crossed over from Mexico. It's called multi-drug
resistant
myco-bacterium TB and it kills two million people worldwide annually. Last
fall a year ago, 30 kids tested positive along with four teachers in a
small town north of Detroit, Michigan. But if you watch the newspapers,
you,ll see new cases of TB popping up like toast all across the country.
It's a ticking time bomb because illegal alien children may carry the
disease
and infect your kids.
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- Another disease carried into our schools is hepatitis
A, and over 100,000 cases have migrated into our country from illegal
aliens.
The problem is"illegal aliens from Third World countries do not
practice
the same hygiene and personal sanitation habits we have fostered in our
First World country. They often won't visit health authorities because
they don't want to get caught. If your child sits in a classroom with
illegal
aliens, your child is at risk and so are you.
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- Worse, in the past five years, 7,000 new cases of leprosy
(Source: Hansen's Disease, Lerner, NY Times 2/20/03) have migrated into
the USA from illegal aliens from India, Brazil and the Caribbean. It's
now endemic to the East Coast for the first time in the history of the
United States. If your child interacts with an illegal alien child carrying
leprosy, your child may come home with a new case of this ancient
disease.
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- However, the worst aspect of this national educational
crisis stems from the fact that millions of these illegals are not
absorbing
into the American way of life. They have no intention of speaking English
or learning our ways. Do we want a divided country, a violent and
uneducated
underclass, a loss of a cohesive language and our own children dumbed
down?
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- What does that yield? It gives us a frightening harvest
of illiterate, uneducated, antagonistic and non-invested young people
exploding
into our society with no academic skills. That's WHY the Third World
suffers
what it suffers: lack of an educated citizenry. Further, it also fosters
separation from those who speak English and pursue educational goals versus
millions who have babies out of wedlock, no working skills, non-English
speaking and an uncanny ability to ride welfare rolls with unprecedented
talent.
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- Finally, this Republic is a delicate form of governance.
Yes, democracy is terribly delicate and one glimpse around the world will
show you why. It requires four qualities to remain viable and functioning.
First, it needs a highly educated population that can participate in its
continuance. Second, it needs a population with a similar moral code.
Third,
it demands a citizenry with a similar ethical system of conduct. Finally,
it needs a nation that speaks the same language so it can discuss, debate
and vote intelligently as it pulls in the same direction.
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- We are losing all four qualities faster than you can
count to ten.
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- Frosty Wooldridge is a teacher and author who has
bicycled
100,000 miles on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly.
His explosive new book is: "IMMIGRATION's UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY
CONSEQUENCES." Copies may be obtained: 1 888 280 7715
www.frostywooldridge.com
Wooldridge is a Senior Writing Fellow for Californians for Population
Stabilization.
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