- Last week, many of you listened to ABC, CBS and NBC report
on horrific educational failures in our major cities. Detroit, Michigan
schools tallied a phenomenal 76 percent of their students as dropouts before
graduating from high school.
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- Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver
and many other cities feature from 50 to 60 percent dropout rates. Three
years ago as reported by the Rocky Mountain News in "What Happened?"
the dropout rate hit the ceiling at 67 percent in Denver Public Schools.
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- Denver Post journalist, David Harsanyi addressed our
national tragedy, but didn't dig far enough into the problem to reveal
the source. Harsanyi 'failed' as a journalist to study the 'core' reason
for those failures across the nation. Harsanyi stands with thousands of
American journalists that fail to connect the dots on the big 'why' of
this national educational predicament.
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- As a professional journalist and a teacher, I launch
where Harsanyi dropped off. I'll try to 'teach' and mentor Harsanyi to
do thorough journalistic work. To give you an example of why Denver suffers
incredible educational consequences, we must investigate deeper. You may
examine these facts as to that Rocky Mountain News report and my teaching
experiences reveal:
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- * Denver Public Schools and Colorado schools suffer over
20,000 to 30,000 illegal alien children along with an estimated 10,000
legal immigrant children at a cost of $654.1 million annually according
to "Breaking the Piggy Bank: How Illegal Immigration Sends Schools
into the Red" (Source: <http://www.fairus.org/>FAIRUS.ORG broken
down by state).
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- * DPS suffers 43 different languages that make it impossible
to educate our children. (and theirs)
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- * One in five teachers quits or transfers out of DPS
each nine month cycle because the chaos in the classroom exceeds their
futility threshold.
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- * Classrooms suffer ethnic tension, racial bias and violence.
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- * Good and marginal Colorado students suffer as time
and allocations go to illegal alien and legal immigrant children such as
ESL classes.
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- * Illegal alien children siphon funds from our kids via
free breakfasts and lunch programs. We educate Mexico's children in deference
to our own as well as feed them.
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- * We displace and dumb-down our courses to the lowest
academic denominator that prevents Colorado students from pursuing a first
class education paid for in taxes by their parents.
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- * Up to half our Colorado students, because of a marginal
high school education caused by the aforementioned points, must take remedial
classes in order to ramp-up to academic requirements at the college level.
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- Please note that every American city suffers commensurate
educational failures depending on the number of legal and illegal immigrants.
Quality education cannot succeed by injecting 2.5 million legal and illegal
immigrants into the United States annually. Those immigrants originate
from third world countries where illiteracy dominates.
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- Those examples illustrate the lose-lose situation for
our Colorado and American students across this nation. As a teacher who
taught in the ghetto (PC= inner city), I can assure you that our kids don't
stand a chance against illegal alien-filled classrooms. You may extend
that across the nation where an estimated four million illegal children
and babies born here that received instant citizenship overwhelm our educational
systems.
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- Their parents remain illiterate in their own languages
and illiterate in English. Thus, our educational systems cannot succeed.
As you heard from the national reports, our educational system, once the
envy of the world, fails stupendously.
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- What does it mean in the long run? It means 1.2 million
young people, as told by Brian Williams of NBC, hit the streets annually
with little ability to read, write or speak correctly, i.e., functionally
illiterate. It means millions of unwed mothers birthing babies that immediately
go on welfare to further the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, despair and
drugs. It means young men locked into the lowest rung on the employment
ladder. Others digress into drugs, crime and violence. It means our prisons
overflow with more hopeless lives.
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- How can we solve our educational, linguistic and social
dilemma? We must initiate a 10 year moratorium on all legal and illegal
immigration. We need to stop the unrelenting and unending flow of over
two million legal and illegal immigrants annually. Otherwise, we add more
immigrant children that throws more gasoline onto our educational house
that burns out of control.
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- Here's a question: what if we continue ignoring this
national tragedy?
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- Journalist Mike Folkerth said, "Ignore what? The
fact that this past January 1st, the first of 78 million Americans began
the longest and largest retirement in history? And that this baby-boomer
retirement line is 17 years long? That Medicare will pay out more than
it takes in this year? The fact that America cannot mathematically grow
out of what the Dallas Fed President reported last week is a $99.2 trillion
unfunded debt?
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- "Or maybe the fact that food prices including rice
skyrocket as shortages appear around the world! Or that the US is running
out of water? Or that oil reserves are diminishing and fuel costs are rising
at an unprecedented rate?
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- "So what's so hard to ignore about a little immigration?
After all, we can use the Calcutta, India and Mexico City master plan to
deal with it."
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- Final note: I am looking for thinkers, writers and advocates
to add to my monthly "Master Mind Think Tank." In reality, our
politicians create the problems that they campaign to solve. They never
solve them; thus we spiral into deeper national chaos. I need new ideas
and new creative thinkers to help me bring our most pressing issues onto
the front burner. As you know, the recent PEW report shows immigration
adding 100 million people to our country in 30 years. We need to stop it
and we need to stop it now. Join me in saving our civilization. <mailto:frostyw@juno.com>frostyw@juno.com
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