Free
Lunch...
900 teachers just got laid off from the Los
Angeles Unified School District . They are $650,000 over their annual
budget.
The following English teacher
helps to explain one area that looms large over
California 's educational
crisis.
This
English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet.
This
should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent.
From a California school teacher - - -
"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration,
there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large
southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning
that its students average lower sociol economic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens,
Huntington Park , etc.. where these students are protesting, are also
Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.When I
say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full
breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott
proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being
dumped in the trash uneaten.
(OUR
TAX DOLLARS ATWORK)
I
estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately
overweight. About 75% or more DO have
cell
phones.
The
school also provides day care centers for the
unwed
teenage pregnant girls (some
as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to
arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
(OUR
TAX DOLLARS ATWORK)
I was
ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding
for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my
budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer
learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti
by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a
free education in America
..
(OUR TAX
DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have
had to intervene several times for young and
substitute teachers whose
classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than
3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores)and
throwing things,that
the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care, etc, etc, etc. Is it any
wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country but to demand rights,
privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to
our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to
pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration
and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime,
lower standards of education in our schools, over crowding, new diseases etc.,
etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans,
We need
to wake up.The
guest worker program will
be a
disaster
because we won't have the guts to enforce it.
Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and
return?
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that
does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and
dropping out of school by
15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an
American
culture that has become so weak and
worried about"political
correctness"that
we don't have the will to do anything about it.
CHEAP
LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a
myth,
a
farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for
example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for
$5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents,
he pays
no
income
tax, yet at the end of the year, if he
files an
Income Tax Return,
he gets
an "earned
income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He
qualifies for
Section 8 housing
and
subsidized rent.
He qualifies for
food stamps..
He
qualifies for
free (no
deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His
children get free breakfasts and lunchesat
school.
He
requires
bilingual teachers and books.
He
qualifies
for relief from high energy bills...
If
they are
or become, aged, blind ordisabled,
they
qualify
for SSI.
Once
qualified for SSI they can qualify for
Medicare.
All of this is at (our)
taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide
Spanish
language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in
benefits.
Working
Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills
AND his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash
clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!
Wake up
people!
THESE ARE
THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER
PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM
AT ONCE!'