Why are Americans so concerned about Mexican children going totheir schools ?

Question

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Look at how many Rednecks got upset over the question. I find it kinda sad Mexican children don't have a better public school option in America. I mean really, it seems the undocumented workers should get a better education for their children after all they have dne for the America.

Answer 1

Feel sorry for them all you want, but what you should really feel sorry about is the fact that their own country does nothing to discourage it's people from leaving. Their own country is such a horrible place to live that they are leaving by the thousands.

One thing that would settle this whole problem is for the crooked Mexican government to start accepting responsibility for it's citizens and to do what it takes to keep them there.

We have to hire multlingual professionals to help them and we are sick of pressing one for Spanish. This is an English speaking country, we are already catering to them enough. If they want to live here, they should learn the language.

If they want to educate their children here then they should start Mexican schools, not make us responsible for hiring someone who knows their language.

2007, you can add gangs and graffitti to your list of things to thank the Mexicans for.

Answer 2

since your other question was deleted.. lets see if this will satisfy your ignorance.. I know of an illegal that comes up here ever two or three yrs works a yr. and goes back to Mexico.. he stated the last time I saw him that he was here this time to pay for his daughters education in Mexico.. she was going to become a doctor.. he was very proud that his little girl was getting a good education in Mexico.. so sit on that and stew on it.. by the way I am a redneck born in the state of Kentucky come on down and make statements like that to my family and freinds and see how far you can get..

Answer 3

Ive read here how the most rational of you correctly explain how much money it cost to have these children educated. You are right, so my opinion is not here to make any of you angry.

As some of you here keep mixing the words mexican and illegal, first I would like to asure that not every mexican is an illegal in the US and not every illegal is mexican.

Some people keep questioning why is it that mexican government encourages ppl to flee to the US... and some even say that mexican government aids ppl in doing so, and most think that it is the mexican government who should be worrying about these ppl's rights, health and education. It is about that that I have an opinion.

Indeed education for mexicans should be provided by the mexican state. In fact, it is. According to the mexican constitution, everyone has the right to free education in Mexico, the problem is that the quality of that free education is not even worth of a third world country. Then these kids with crappy education finish elementary school without even knowing how to add and substract, and given that they are so poor, their parents pull them out of school, and bring them with themselves to work at the labor fields.... then they have children of their own, and hence starts a terrible vicious cycle that affect millions.

But as it is normal in 3rd world countries, there is also a social, academic, industrial, and economic elite which controls most of the country's resources; so poor mexicans have two options:

1) stay in mexico, work for rich mexicans for ridiculous wages and have the certainty that their children will get the same crappy education and with time be as poor as they are.

2) illegaly migrate to the 1rst world, where they can get quality services that would allow, if not them at least their children, to have a CHANCE to be someone.

So there are a looooot of poor mexicans in search for those opportunities in the US, and they are a lot of them here in mexico. Some of them become criminals, some work hard, but I think that would happen in every culture.

The millions of them that went to the US are not welcome nor invited (as someone said), for the millions of them that stayed in Mexico it is the same.

No american wants them there, no mexican wants them there.. they are foreigners in their own land and their own land can't offer the chance of a better life for their children... so the way I see it, they truly are refugees.

So what I'm saying is, they are already used to being hated, they are already used to people not wanting them anywhere.... so hate them all you want, build a hate fence so that they have a harder time getting through it, deport them, etc..... but humanly understand that these are just people looking for what's best for their children, and children have done nothing to deserve being deprived of their future.

Answer 4

In my city we hold 6 weeks of summer school for Mirgrant workers(undocumented) children. They do not pay for this session. They do not pay taxes to pay for this school. We are then told programs are being cut for our children and that we can not improve the infrastucture because there is no money. Our children are the ones paying the price of a lesser education.

Answer 5

i don't care if anyone is here as long as they abide our laws, pay the school taxes like the rest of Americans and are not criminals hiding in America. maybe instead of slandering all white people as "rednecks" you can point that high powered self righteous finger at your own race and ask the same question without prejudice. if i came to another country illegally collecting benefits that i had no business collecting and going to a school that your paying for while my family doesn't pay the taxes and contributes to exhausting your nations resources then i graduate and make something of myself while not paying any dues along the way how excited are you going to be about it? do yourself a favor look at the questions you post from a 3rd persons point of view and imagine everyone in the circumstance is the same creed. i think it will change your perspective. FYI Mexico has some of the worst immigration laws towards people not of Mexican origin i.e panama, Nicaragua, etc etc. how come you don't seem to upset with them?? hypocrite much!

Answer 6

Because the average cost for a student is $10,000 per child per year, and illegal immigrants typically can't pay that sort of local taxes above federal taxes to cover it, so we have to pay for the kids. Worse, their kids, if they have a language barrier, cost well above the average, and the money comes from our own kids' education funds. Programs that all children got 20 years ago in LA (like languages for OUR children in middle school) have been cut not only to pay for ESL for children of those illegally here, but to educate the parents so they can help their children with the homework. When OUR kids graduate middle school in LAUSD, OUR kids are the only ones in the room who are NOT bilingual.

If the employers want them here, they need to offset the burden on schools, hospitals, social security and other programs that the greater number of poor people we subsidize costs those systems. However, then it wouldn't be 'cheap labor' any more, and employers are against that. Meanwhile, we pay for it, it ruins services WE use, and their presence undermine the wages WE need to pay for THEIR services so employers can profit.

This isn't about those legally here who should be budgetted, except to the extent quotas should be adjusted until services recover. This is just about those illegally here, from whereever.

Answer 7

Our public school teachers are underpaid and overtaxed enough without having to teach simultaneously in two languages because Mexicans will not learn English. Mexican children are certainly entitled to a decent education. In Mexico. What has Mexico done for these children. I'll hold my breath and wait for your answer....

Answer 8

Rednecks!!! I put myself through college and work hard for everything I have. I'm sick of paying taxes to support people who don't pay taxes. Why don't they work hard to improve their own country and schools and stop free loading off the American people? And just exactly what do you think these undocumented Mexican workers have done for Americans??? Make us work harder and pay more taxes, so they can educate their children in our country. Wake up! Americans are fed up with this crap!!!!

Answer 9

Here's an idea- America's schools are for American children.

Mexican schools are for Mexican children- unless of course the Mexican children are legal residents.

That is how it should be and I think it's pretty damn sad that it has to be explained to anybody.

Answer 10

US Citizens are not concerned about Mexican children going to our schools. We are, however, concerned about the children of illegal aliens going to our schools. Why? Because it costs us money; money that many of us can't afford. The school system in the US is supported by our tax dollars, which pay for our children to go to school. Why should we have to pay for someone else to go to school? The taxes aren't usually called "Taxes for Schools." In my state, they are personal property taxes (another subject to which I object, but that's another story). These taxes are collected on homes, businesses, automobiles, and any other type of property one can own. Schools are also supported by some of the income taxes we pay. Someone without any property, who does not pay income taxes, does not provide any support for the school system. That's why we are concerned about the children of illegal aliens going to our schools. And it doesn't matter where they're from - Mexico, England, Iran, Canada, or anywhere else.

Then there's the fact that we are pressured to provide interpreters for them. It costs enough to provide teachers who speak English. Double that cost to provide teachers who teach in Spanish. That completely ignores the fact that the students are not able to function in any society other than their own if they do not speak English. Since English is the de facto language of the United States, businesses and their employees speak English by preference and need. It will be difficult when these children, fifteen or more years from now, can't even order a cup of coffee in English.