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[Seeker]

MEXICAN TEACHERS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS

Guess who is teaming up with government schools in Utah? Mexico. Yep, you heard me right. Mexico and Utah signed an agreement called the Memorandum of Understanding on Education. You know what my understanding is? That kids shouldn't be sent to public schools in the first place. But I can guarantee that's not what this memo said.

So what is their "understanding"? Hiring Mexican teachers. Why? Because 40% of students in Utah government schools speak Spanish. So instead of making the kids learn English ... we are just going to teach them in Spanish. Assimilation? Yeah, right. Your government wants to make sure that little Jose is comfortable in his second grade class. It doesn't want any "at risk" children to fall behind or feel left out. Never mind that they're essentially left behind when they graduate from these idiot government schools and still can't speak our language.

Here's a lesson: parents, teach your kids English. If you don't know English, learn it. If you want to succeed and thrive in America, lean the language of America .... NORTH America ... and that language isn't Spanish.

Another kicker in this little memorandum is that the "arrangement" required several staff trips to and from Mexico. Guess who was footing that bill. The taxpayers. Of course. Not to mention the fact that the Mexican teachers will have an orientation week funded by the Office of Education (aka. Taxpayers). The orientation includes finding housing. Knowing our government, that's probably on the taxpayers' dime as well.

And the sub-headline is just priceless ... like they are trying to justify it to the public: "They will help Spanish speakers do better in school; no Utahn is being deprived of a job." There are so many things wrong with that statement. But that's government for you!

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[Aaron]

While I am sure there are a lot of reasons why our friends in Central and South American risk life and limb to illegally enter the United States, I feel fairly safe in summarizing their intent into a single sentence: they want a better future for themselves and their families.

Right? Anyone disagree?

It would seem to me that not exposing your children as much as possible to the de facto national language of the United States would prevent them from having a future significantly better than the one they left behind.

Of course, I don't think that we should be paying to educate people who aren't here legally... but that's a different thread entirely.

[Inferia]

While I am sure there are a lot of reasons why our friends in Central and South American risk life and limb to illegally enter the United States, I feel fairly safe in summarizing their intent into a single sentence: they want a better future for themselves and their families.

Right? Anyone disagree?

I was under the impression they came here to destroy America?

[Aaron]

I was under the impression they came here to destroy America?

I don't think I've ever said anything that would give anyone the impression that I think people from Central and South America are entering the United States (illegally) with sinister intentions.

I don't blame people for wanting to live in the United States, even if it means living their illegally. Hell, if I was in their situtation, I would probably jump the fence too. But if the roles were reversed, say with Mexico and the United States, there is no doubt in my mind that they would be just as anxious, concerned and irritated with illegal immigration as we are over here.

Mexico is much, much harder on Hondurans who illegally cross their southern border than we are on Mexicans who do the same on our southern border.

How Mexico Treats Immigrants

As tough as the United States can be for workers who slip in from south of the border, Mexico is in a poor position to criticize. The problem goes far beyond the predatory gantlet of thugs and crooked cops facing defenseless transients like Moisés. There's ample precedent in Mexico for just about everything the United States is—or isn't—doing. Calling out the military? Mexicans may hate the new U.S. plan to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops on the border, but five years ago they cheered President Vicente Fox for sending thousands of Mexican soldiers to crack down on their southern frontier. Tougher laws? Hispanic-rights groups are enraged over U.S. efforts to criminalize undocumented aliens—yet since 1974, sneaking into Mexico has been punishable by up to two years in prison. Foot-dragging on amnesty? Fox has spent the past five years urging the United States to upgrade the status of millions of illegals from Mexico. Meanwhile, his own government has given legal status to only 15,000 foreigners without papers.