Consider cheap tomatoes!
>>
>>This email is from a retired friend whose wife is a teacher in the
> Riverside, CA area, and has been for many, many years. The attached is
> first hand knowledge...
>>
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>>
>>As you all listen to the news about the student protests over illegal
> immigration there are some things that you should be aware of.
>>
>>As most of you know my wife is in charge of the
> English-as-a-second-language department at large southern California high
> school, which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students
> average lower socio-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.
>>
>>My wife tells me that 100% of the students in her school and other Title 1
> schools are on the free breakfast, 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.
>>
>>She estimates 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 baby-sitters or having family watch
> their kids.
>>
>>She was ordered to spend $700,000 on her department or risk losing funding
> for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; her
> budget was already substantial. She ended up buying new computers for
> their
> 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.
>>
>>She has had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers
> whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the
> country
> less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers,
> calling
> them Putaswhoresand 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 to not only be in this country but to demand
> rights, privileges and entitlements?
>>
>>To my conservative friends: I hope you're really proud of how George W.
> Bush has helped to sell-out this country with his pro-illegal policy. I
> voted for him too, but on this issue he is a disaster.
>>
>>To my bleeding-heart liberal friends 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, overcrowding, new
> diseases etc., etc., etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
>>
>>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 leave and return
> voluntarily?
>>
>>There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to
> our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage
> and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.
>>
>>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
> politically correct that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
