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Geoff of Golden writes:

I think the researchers, Schoales, and Gottlieb miss the point. If I read this right, it states that only if Hispanics children currently attending minority school are allowed to attend schools with white upper and middle class white children can they ever achieve academic success.
It is tragic to suggest that simple proximity to white people is critical to their education.
Other researchers, John McWhorter sites them in his book “Loosing the Race” note that a child’s and their parent’s attitude towards learning has much greater impact on their academic achievement than does the social economic background of their schoolmates.
It has taken a great deal of time and energy for middle and upper class white people to “resegregate” the schools. They pale a high value on education and take an ACTIVE role in the process by volunteering at school, meeting with the teachers, and reading to their children when they are young. Like middle and upper class parents of all races, they hard at their children’s education.
Instead of a social engineering project transplanting students, resources should be spent to educate the parents of these Hispanic children to take responsibility for their child’s education. Help them to understand the need to place the same value on education and work just as hard at their child’s education as do the upper and middle class white children the bureaucrats seek to lure with the magnet schools. Is it not better to attack the problem at the source and give these children a foundation for future successes? Upper and middle class whites send their children to the best school possible. If these Hispanic children in minority schools can DEMONSTRE their ability to enhance these white kids education opportunity, integration takes care of itself.
Of course I may have read this wrong and the real concern is the segregation itself. If this is the case, then perhaps Hispanics in minority schools and their parents should re-double their efforts to integrate themselves into the American culture. I grew up in the central valley of California; I have never seen a single example of middle and upper class Hispanics being segregated. The only segregation which I saw was economic and included everyone of every race religion and creed.

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Remember busing?????? That experiment in segregation didn't work did it?? Upper white and middle class kids would ignore Hispanics anyway, or their parents would just move and enroll their kids in a predominately white school elsewhere. It's called "white flight" I remember it well!!!

If the "Hispanic" (read Mexican) population want better American educations for their children they might try assimulating into OUR culture instead of expecting their children to be taught in a FOREIGN language and then wonder why they don't do well on AMERICAN standardized tests. OR they could start complaining that their RIGHTS are being denied and demand their children take those tests in the same FOREIGN language.....Bienvenidos! (Why exactly is that on the front of every Elementary school in most parts of this city????)

Parent involvement?

You gotta be serious. Parents don't speak English, the children have to interpret for the parent. How can they be involved in their child's education.?

Geoff, I would prefer that we use any resources to deport illegal aliens obtaining free benefits such as education.

You can check the stats for Cherry Creek school district. The elementary schools with the worst achievement and lowest CSAP scores are the ones with the highest Hispanic enrollment. It's not the schools that help kids succeed, it is parental involvement.
Maybe helping them learn fluent English first, then helping them learn more than just menial labor requirements will help Hispanic children succeed. It is all up to the parents. If the parents choose not to learn English, their kids are basically doomed to low wage, hard labor for life.

Hispanic parental involvment of their children's education is not my problem.

If they don't want to be educated I would like the tax money going to try to educate them be pulled and put towards children who want to learn.

Enough is enough.

Stop the pandering to hispanics.They have already destroyed many schools and the education of kids who do want to learn.

Why does our taxes keep going to people who could care less about their kids getting an education,do not want to assimilate,tear down neighborhoods,run down schools,are criminals by just being here illegally,and breaking many other laws in the process.

Children learn what they live.

If a child has parents that are illegal,they learn braking the law is okay.

If a child has illegal parents driving,they learn driving illegally is okay.

If a child has illegal parents using a fake SS#,they learn stealing is okay.

If a child has illegal parents not paying taxes,they learn how not to pay their way in life.

If a child has illegal parents and they keep having children,they learn they do not have to pay medical care.

If a child has illegal parents who do not want to assimilate and hate the U.S.,that child learns to hate the U.S.

If a child has illegal parents and sees all the illegal activity that they get away with,that child learns rules and laws mean nothing.

That child learns authority is a joke and if he or she is hispanic they can do what they want.They learn no self respect,no respect for rules and laws, no respect for education.

Now I ask all you bleeding hearts out there,how much more of your taxes do you want to go to a lost cause?
How much more taxes do you want the government to take from you to give to a lost cause?

It is not the responsibility of the government to take taxes from the responsible and legal workers and give it to people who are not responsible and illegal.

When is this going to stop?

It is not working and the average family is being taxed more and more to give to people who want everything for free.

The old saying, Live free or die, should now read, give everything for free and die.

All the Headstart preschool programs are
filled to the brim with little anchor babies
children all speak spanish so do the parents
no parent involment. You couldn't get your American child in if you tried.

Simple, don't hire anyone that cannot speak english. See how much their language helps them in the lawn mowing biz.

Can I get an Amen,

Amen and Amen

We are flushing so much money down the drain on illegals.

For example, the ESL (English as a Second
Language) programs in the school. Is anyone aware that they pull kids out of class to get one-on-one with and ESL teacher even if they speak perfect English if there is a foreign language spoken in the home? WHAT A TREMENDOUS WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY! They hire people for this waste of time job when money could be used elsewhere.

Can I Get An Amen, you said it all. We are spinning our wheels and wasting billions of tax dollars.

If they don't speak English and break law after law, they don't deserve a thing, including their child's education (another freebie).

As I've said a millions times before, what is Mexico ever going to do to solve their people's problems? NOT A THING as long as we are expected to do it for them, AND WE DO.

I would like to ask all the people who fight for illegals rights this question.

How do you expect this generation of hispanic children that are in our schools right now ,to respect education,our laws,our country and themselves?

They see their parents breaking law after law and getting away with it.

Not only do the see that it's seems to be okay ,alot of their children are turming away from education and turning to crime. Why get an education when there are so many ways to rip off the U.S. and it's citizens?

Why should they get an education when they know crime actually pays off for the illegal population?

Such hate that you harbor in that black rock you call your heart ,amen, you should be ashamed.......I can only assume,by your ranting's that you are not a God fearing person,how else can a human being hold such hatred ????? You have a very small perspective on the world as a whole........ You and your ilk as well as all humans have bones in your closets,that rattle every time you use your-I'm better than you argument...May God forgive you because you are NOT better than the next human being...... God knows whats in your heart,amen,all you are doing is sowing the seed of hate....You need to read your bible and ask for forgivness before it is too late for your I'm better than you attitude..I'll bet you even believe in manifest-destiny,don't you?????????????? I will forgive your hate,pray God will also......

Ron, If I go to Hell, I will speak very highly of you.

Get your head out of your book of fiction and come into the real world or you can stay in the asylum your in.

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