Imigration in America

[--Pete]

Hi,

They don't (can't) just throw them into an English speaking classroom, and expect them to keep up.

You're right, they can't. Oh, wait a minute, they did -- with me and with a whole bunch of immigrants who came before me (and for a long time after me). I went to high school with a number of Cubans who spoke no English. And it worked a whole lot better than what they are doing now. If you want a polyglot nation and the divisions, mistrust, and hatred that engenders, then the present practice is the way to go.

By Federal law, we are required to accommodate children with special educational needs, of which, one of them is ESL. And... to make it worse, this is an unfunded federal mandate.

So? Doesn't make it right, just makes it another poorly thought out law.

--Pete