How does illegal immigration affect schools??

Question

i hear all these ppl saying dat illegal immigration affects our schools, How do they really get affected??? i need to know cuz for all i know they are keeping da teachers with work.

Answer 1

Our taxes go up to pay for the overcrowded rundown schools which become even more run down due to a bunch of students who do not have any respect for rules/laws (a trait, no doubt, passed on by their parents) vandalizing the schools.

Additionally, we have an overwhelmingly high number of non-English-speaking students causing even more waste of taxpayer dollars.

Those are the two biggest problems.

Answer 2

First and foremost, it's the cost of offering ESL (english as a second language) at public schools while that money could be spent elsewhere for the legal kids. Arts programs have been cut for ESL. Second, since most illegal immigrants live in urban areas where the schools are overcrowded there is an additional burden that often the school district cannot absorb. Third, the parents that do not learn English are demanding bi-lingual principals that cuts down on the applicants, often leading to some that are not qualified.

You're right they are keeping the ESL teachers with work. However, someone is paying their salary. Public school money doesn't just show up in the bank account, it is paid for mostly at the local level with property taxes. Anyone who owns a house is paying for illegal immigrants and non-English speakers educations and they're upset about it.

Answer 3

Let's keep this simple and close to home to see if you can really understand.
I don't know how old you are or what grade you are in, I assume you are young enough to be in school.
One look at your question and statements and I have to wonder is that how you think those words are spelled, is that the way a proper sentence is structured. maybe you are using some kind of slang spelling to give the impression that you are "kool" or "street".
I don't know, but I get the impression that you think it is O.K. to write that way in order to get your message across.
What it really communicates is that you are lazy and do not care about such things.
It tells me that this is the attitude you have about education. I can only assume that asking such questions you are serious in your thoughts and yet you can not even spell words correctly. is this really the level of education you have recieved in school or are you simply doing as you please?
I suppose from your question that you feel schools have not been affected, what do you base that on, personal experience?
How are you able to compare that experience with schools and school environment from twenty years ago.

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Now you may say that i am just being picky about little words but that is my point. What your attitude is about such things is an indicator of the level of education you have recieved.

YOU are showing your ignorance.
Good luck with your education.
I mean it.

Answer 4

Well, for one thing, the schools have to hire people fluent in spanish ( EXTRA tax money) to work with the ILLEGALS kids. This takes money AWAY from the programs that are meant for OUR children!!! The teachers are not able to spend as much time helping the kids who are ALREADY fluent in English, because they have to spend MORE time with those who do not comprehend the langauge!!! The COST for literature in a foreign language, is ALSO funded by taxpayers!!! ALSO, there are the "free" lunches for the illegals kids. But they are NOT free,because the COST is passed on to the taxpayers!!!
ILLEGAL immigration effects, not ONLY our schools, but EVERY other aspect of Americans lives!!!!

Answer 5

Poor people don't pay enough in taxes to cover the education of their children and for other services. However, if they don't use welfare, education and health care are the two most expensive.

The rest of us pay the bulk of the cost for the schools, but the funds are being stretched to cover many many more students. If they have to hire more teachers, it comes out of other funds. If they have to pay for ESL, one of the most expensive special education costs, it comes out of other funds for other children. In addition, ESL students slow the school instruction for others.
This is not their fault, they may be very smart. However, it is in the nature of teaching someone a language at the same time you are teaching the subject matter.

Meanwhile, people who are taxpayers can only pay so much for school, and the more people using those funds, the less funds there are per student. School systems like LAUSD have perpetually failing test scores for ESL students (which are not necessarily the same students being tracked, as illegals often transition through LA as a 'first stop' on the way to the inner states). Accordingly, the most funding goes to bringing up those demographic group grades, and again, the less emphasis is spent on other children, who happen to be the ones who are legally here.

Answer 6

They cost more money than they put in. For ONE EXAMPLE Mexicans have about 500 babies for every 100 Mexicans that die. Whites only have 80 babies for every 100 whites that die. We are dwindling, they are booming. Not Mexican American booming. MEXICANS. So they are filling up the schools yet their parents, if they pay taxes, which many don't, pay the same for 5 kids that we pay for 1. THEN they protest every damn thing, even when they aren't citizens. They have all these damn walkouts and disrupt the order of school. They disrupt learning for the other kids. THEN they got the law changed, so in order to graduate High School, they only need a middle school education. These make a very big difference. It isn't racist. It's just reality. The solutions are for anyone living here to be citizens. No migrant worker programs any more. They should have to pay taxes and maybe even per kid. They should stay in school and in no way disrupt it. If you are not a citizen, you shouldn't be trying to change laws. Pass the exit exam to graduate High School. LIKE THE REST OF US DUH. It's the double standard, mostly, which pisses off people like me.
I understand poverty from first hand experience. I understand inequality. I don't stand for this double standard.

Answer 7

Schools are paid for by tax dollars, so more kids means more money has to be spent, especially since most of those kids are on the free food programs at school. Also with the No child Left Behind, schools are having to dumb down their curriculum to the level of the illegals who are just now learning English, which mean lesser quality of education for all the children.

Answer 8

Effect, not affect. And they crowd the schools and rob time for real Americans to learn. They also waste our educations dollars to build bigger school and to add classes like "english as a second language". Also, "keeping da teachers with work", teachers will always have a job, it's not like Americans are going to stop going to school.

Answer 9

Well in Texas the standard test of passing has gone down and the education system has got easier. Texas schools have spanish classes in elementary. I think this is a great idea. too bad when I was 10 I failed spanish because I thought it was crap that I had to learn spanish. I felt it was not part of my culture KOrean/chinese is and it is offensive. Later I have learned spanish and I kick myself for being so intolerate.

Answer 10

Note to CVASS20: Actually, it is "affect" and not "effect". I refer you to:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/affect
"Usage Note: Affect and effect have no senses in common. As a verb affect is most commonly used in the sense of “to influence” (how smoking affects health). Effect means “to bring about or execute”: layoffs designed to effect savings. Thus the sentence These measures may affect savings could imply that the measures may reduce savings that have already been realized, whereas These measures may effect savings implies that the measures will cause new savings to come about."

So, to answer your question, illegal immigration effects the reduction of the system's Dollars per student ratio which, in turns, affects its quality.