How do you feel about mass immigration and education?

Question

In 2000, about 8 million of the total 53 milion school-age (5-17) children in the U.S. where the offspring of immigrants who had arrived since 1970. This is equal to all of the growth in the shool-age population over the last 20 years.

Bringing a student with limited English skills to average performance levels requires spending and additonal $10,000 per student per year.

Almost half (44%) of Hispanic immigrants ages 16 to 24 do not have a high school diploma.

College bound Latinos and Mexican-Americans were the only major ethnic groups for which verbal SAT scores declined between 1987 and 2003.

What good is it really for our American children to have their classrooms filled with foreigners?

For more imformation on these facts visit:

http://www.CommonSenseOnMassImmigration.us

http://www.VDARE.com

When I say "American" children i am refuring to all US citizens. Not one race, creed or color. I think that all children deserve an education but why should my child suffer because of a bunch of people breaking the law.

Answer 1

If you let someone migrate to this country it is only a benefit to educate them if someone is here illegally they should not get an education,medical care or any kind of support from any branch of government unless they pay for it that would make them thnk twice about coming here illegally

Answer 2

I really can't get over that a certain amount of people here on Yahoo Answers believe such as you do. It's sad. But hey, it's your belief, who am I to try to change it?
Doesn't anyone here who continually complains about immigrants in the US have a grandparent or family member who immigrated to the US back in the early 1900's?
Didn't you learn in school that immigration in the early 1900's had an impact on the growth and development of America? Doesn't anyone think about these things? Your children's children will probably be learning about how immigration in the early 2000's also had an impact on the growth and developement of America as well.
History tends to repeat itself because the immigrants who came to the U.S. seeking better economic opportunities for their families in the early 1900's also came across strong feelings of prejudice and nativism from Americans. The Italians and Irish-Catholics provide good examples of the experiences faced by many of the immigrants in the 1920s. They were victims of discrimination in the work place, were targets of the Ku Klux Klan, and faced various other problems. A lot has been written about the suffering and discrimination encountered by the Italian immigrant in the United States, but this should be measured against what they left behind at home in Italy. The immigrant at this time left one thing behind and that was poverty. I just can't understand why so many of you people put so much time and energy into bigotry.
Most immigrants are coming to America in search of a better place for their family.
I also find it hard to fathom that in one sentance you describe your negetive findings on immigrant education and English skills and in the next sentance you insinuate that immigrants shouldn't be in our schools. Bigotry at it's finest. Diversity in the classroom is very enriching as well as educational for children.
You should really explore your prejudices.

Answer 3

With the current rate of LEGAL immigration into the USA currently, in oreder to just keep up with the child birth rate for Americans, there needs to be a new school opened every single day to accomodate properly the old style standards of education.
Of course, you can imagine what the new style of education will provide in terms of education.
PLus there are the small details like most schools will have to teach Spanish, Koran and other dialects in order to reach their students. The English speaking children will have few resources to learn by in the old style of school ways.
Then there is the need for more roads, more of many things. Who will pay for this? The wealthy immigrants or perhaps the middle class Americans?

Answer 4

i'm an ESL teacher, so i know a bit about immigration and education. to be totally honest...ignoring all facts...and this might not be the comment you were looking for...

i would have stopped teaching 2 months into my first year if i had to teach the "regular" kids. my kids are quiet, well mannered, extremely respectful, a bit protective of me (very cute,) and ignoring the teenage moodswings...VERY happy to be here. they work hard to catch up and learn english. they get frustrated like anybody else would, but they do just fine, and they learn. i'm always amazed at how fast they catch on. on the other hand, entering the building with the regular kids (ESL happens to be in a portable buidling) i can barely walk down the hall without hearing foul language, seeing kids fighting, insulting teachers, attempting to vandalize school property, the list goes on...

i'm not a weakminded person, and i don't get intimidated easily....but you could not pay me enough to put up with the kind of kids i see in a "regular" classroom. no thanks!! all the teachers in my building are jealous of my job and my students, you just can't beat them. (and it's been this way at all the schools i've taught at.) teachers i talk to WANT my students in their rooms because they hope their behavior will rub off on the regular students. they want to show an example of someone who truly appreciates what they've been given and who wants to learn.

i know this doesn't address all of the costs and things you were refering too...i'm just one person saying my students are smart, successful, well behaved, and...not receiving anywhere NEAR an addtional 10,000 dollars a year! maybe i meant more to comment on the fact that i see OUR young people (native US citizen) losing all respect for authority, having zero desire to learn, only concerned with the quick way out, and basically pulling this society downwards fast if something isn't done. some of this nations biggest problems are right here at home, right IN our home with our own citizens.

Answer 5

We shouldn't have to be educating these kids. They are not our responsibility!

There are too many kids that can't get an education because the teachers have to worry about the NON-ENGLISH speaking kids. Is that fair?

Answer 6

It's not good. This is a serious issue, without question. Illegal immigrants need to be identified and deported.

Answer 7

how do you feel about asking a question and letting us answer it instead of you doing it.