Press #140 for English
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – DeKalb County School District Superintendent Stephen Green believes diversity makes America stronger, and by that measure the school district is a powerhouse.
Green issued a statement recently to highlight diversity in the district and urge compassion for its immigrant and refugee students, which come from dozens of different countries and speak dozens of different languages, The Champion Newspaper reports.
“We are hearing a lot of conversation right now, some of it extreme, about how residents from originally outside our country should be treated,” Green wrote. “We have 102,000 students here. They come from more than 180 countries, and they speak 140 languages. We value them; we love them and we respect what their presence here says about the goodness and generosity of America – our diversity is our strength.”
Seriously? How many terps does the DeKalb County School System employ? Do the kids get interpreters during recess on the playground? Do the morning announcements finish up around 1130?
The statement, issued Jan. 30, comes after two teachers were removed from their posts at Cross Keys High School for allegedly making disparaging remarks against illegal immigrant students.
Both teachers were removed from their classrooms on Nov. 10 as district officials launched investigations into claims they allegedly made about illegal immigrants in the wake of Donald Trump’s historic election win on Nov. 8, the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Meanwhile, Payal Modi sits at home on paid administrative leave after bringing a water “pistol” to school and staging a mock assassination of President Trump. I seem to recall a child with ADHD was suspended for making a “meanie gun” out of a pop tart.
Superintendent Green, meanwhile, is urging school officials to show love to local illegal immigrants to help them assimilate into the school district.
“Imagine how hard it is to come to a new country and start life over without familiar ties to family, culture or language,” he said. “DeKalb schools give an anchor to our new citizens. Our role as school leaders is to help learning in our schools to become love – love for a new place, a new way of life and, ultimately, for one another.”
How about showing some love for American citizens by getting in line and applying for citizenship? Help illegal aliens assimilate? Does Stephen Green realize what he is asking? Harboring illegal aliens? Teaching our children that laws are irrelevant? Irrational diversity has made us hypocrites and weak.
We charge parents with assault for spanking their children while we applaud the parents of illegals who catapult their children over our fences. Children’s Services will remove an American child from the home if they don’t have a bedroom, but allow six illegal families with ten children cram into a two bedroom apartment. We provide “free” lunch to starving children in the public school system yet don’t prosecute the parents for child abuse for not feeding their children, despite receiving hundreds of dollars in monthly food stamp benefits. Something has to give, the system is broken.
Didn’t someone say that elections have consequences?
140 student languages in suburban Georgia school district
Category: Politics
Stephen Green sounds about as full of liberalism as one can get. Where was he indoctrinated, UC Berzerkely?
I’m a product of the DeKalb County school system. Then it was one of the best in the state. A large number of those with whom I graduated are MDs, PhDs, JDs, engineers, and business professionals. We even have two astronauts who graduated from the same high school, although a few years apart.
We moved back to Atlanta briefly a few years ago and were considering living in my old neighborhood. The crime rate had gone up significantly and the schools were horrible, to the point that they were on the verge of losing their accreditation. We settled on northern Fulton instead, and, given the number of my former classmates who were in the same area, the decision wasn’t uncommon. I’d say that the prevailing attitude of the superintendent is a large part of the problem.
“I’d say that the prevailing attitude of the superintendent is a large part of the problem.”
Unfortunately, this is a problem in many school districts across the country… PC superintendents more worried about diversity than why Johnny or Susie can’t read, do math or write a complete sentence.
My wife was a public school teacher for 15 years. Her father is a retired public school teacher. When she was pregnant with our child she declared that there was no public school that would educate one of our children. So far its been the case.
She got out of teaching after our last PCS. She couldn’t stand what was happening in the public schools and couldn’t be a part of it any longer, even under principals who she liked and respected. She now does part time tutoring and substitute teaching at our child’s private Christian elementary school. She gets to pursue her passion without having to concern herself with explaining why the transgendered child who calls itself Bob doesn’t have the same parts as the rest of the 4th grade boys who are using the bathroom.
We can complain about the school systems (and should) but we also need to try to make a difference in them.
I have taught in a private Christian school (and loved it) and substituted in public schools in two different school districts. Many of the teachers are doing the best they can to actually help the children in their care. The pressure from the Feds and the State to jump through some hoops gets in the way of education most of the time.
But we can work to help our local schools as well. Besides petitioning our representatives to kill the Feds DOE and fetter the states’ DOE-equivalent, we can volunteer in schools.
Our church has a cadre of volunteers who have adopted a local school. They work with the teachers and/or the students to help them and support them in many different ways.
Instead of just lamenting the state of the schools, these volunteers are working to make a difference.
I still do not want my grandchildren going to the local public schools, but for those children who are caught in that system, we can make a difference in a child’s life.
It might not be a bad idea to get your local veteran’s organization(s) and churches into some similar program.
There’s a movement to return “North Fulton” back to Milton County. I hear that it’s racist because all of the wealth is in North Fulton and they’re tired of paying for all of the underperforming crap in South Fulton (schools, infrastructure, crime, jobs, etc.)
That was ongoing when we were there. If you look at the tax base of places like Johns Creek as opposed to College Park, it’s obvious that there is a giant sucking sound as the cash flows from north to south. There is also a disparity in the level of county services provided between the two (need a birth certificate for a child born at Northside Hospital? Be prepared to sit in a hell hole in Atlanta for a few hours and be served by someone who is barely literate enough to enter your information into the computer).
If you need a birth certificate for someone born in Georgia, go here:
https://services.georgia.gov/gta/rover/
That’s the application my team developed specifically for Vital Records to avoid darkening the door of any county records office.
Homeschool.
Private school.
And storm the School Board meetings.
This guy is a caricature of what is wrong with this country. Does he actually believe that if you keep students from being able to communicate with each other and their teachers that their lives will be better? Doubtful. Keeping people confused and unable to communicate with each other makes them easier to control, while the confusion of those who cannot communicate also disrupts the lives of those natives among whom they reside. Sounds like its directly out of Alinsky and a win-win for the lefty cause.
So, they have people speaking Urdu there? Sanskrit? Cornish? Welsh, perhaps? Norman (Old French)? Manse? Frisian? Latin? Classical Greek? Olde English? Saxon? Old High German? Old Norse? Afrikaans?
That’s fifteen languages, so far. Do they have those included? Of course not. That would make sense. You only include languages spoken by people you really despise underneath that veneer of ‘civil discourse’. I’m getting so fed up with these phonies.
Don’t laugh. Los Angeles USD has over 700k students.
Their rules state that if there are over 5 (yes, 5) students who speak a language other than English, a translator needs to be permanently on staff to cater to them.
Meanwhile, their graduation rate hovers just over 40 percent. Yay liberal indoctrination!
English or get the fuck out…come here and assimilate, admit the reality that where you came from sucks rancid donkey ass and that’s why you are here….if where you were from was worth a fuck you’d still be there….
Once you admit that it’s easy to drop what you were and become something better, become an American…and the government needs to get rid of all that race horseshit on the census….there’s only one race and it’s the human race. There are varying amounts a melanin in our skin but that’s not a distinctly separate race it’s just an adaptive response to our geography. There should be two checkboxes on the census. American and Legal Resident Alien….all others can just fuck off.
If people would stop worrying about what they ought to be called and start wondering why the government wants us all to be divided into smaller and smaller groups perhaps we can get our collective heads out of our collective asses and get back to what’s important about making the nation ever better.
Diversity makes us better? No it doesn’t assimilation makes us stronger, accepting your new culture while remembering your old culture is fine…we become stronger when we mix together and produce the best offspring possible from the strongest parts of our shared genetics….United we stand, diversity divides us and lets us fall….this isn’t really that hard people wake the fuck up will ya?
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Well said VOV.
If we keep heading down this rode, the next thing we will have is terrorists as a protected class.
Are you saying, VOV, that resistance is futile? You will be assimilated! Your technology will be added to our perfection as we are perfection. (Sorry, far too many episodes of the BORG showing up on ST:NG that one season.)
“English or get the fuck out”…YES! Fucking period!
Thank you VOV.
My wife is teaching our kids to speak Khmer. I not only support it, I insist on it, because English is a 3rd language for their grandparents, with whom the kids should be able to easily communicate, plus it’s never a bad thing to be bilingual. They are also learning it from Yey (Grandma) and T’ha (Grandpa). Right now it’s basic stuff, for example: “Arkoun” (with the R pronounced so softly it’s almost an H) is “thank you,” “ma’neh” is “come here,” and the word for rice is “bai.” As for me, I only understand some words, and don’t get the grammar structure at all, but I recognize enough words that when my wife and her sisters talk in Khmer (with American accents–as English is their first language–that apparently make them barely-intelligible to their few surviving relatives in Cambodia) I can generally pick up what they’re talking about. My in-laws, not so much, because they talk too damn fast and speak it with a native accent, so I’m lucky to catch one word in twenty. Their English, as rough as it is, is *far* superior to my Khmer. The Khmer language is tough to learn because, apart from a handful of Vietnamese, Lao, and Thai loanwords, it is linguistically distinct and not closely related to any other southeast Asian language. It also uses a unique alphabet. My wife is about 75% fluent, though she is illiterate in Khmer (she reads English just fine). Her twin sister is able to read it, though. One of these days I plan on getting Mrs Whitey a Rosetta Stone* program so she can master her parents’ language. By the same token, she wants me to learn Gaelic. Maybe one of these days… However, this is an English-speaking nation, whether the snowflakes want to admit it or not. English is Mrs Whitey’s first language because her parents recognize and respect that. They don’t demand accommodation or insist on Cambodian signage or any of that crap. But then again, they came here as legal immigrants, refugees at that, and they figured that assimilating to their new… Read more »
TOW – I’m all for multilingual. Although it was German and Spanish we were learning at home. It does help broaden your mind a lot.
The history of the USA is of folks who came here and worked hard to learn English (if it was not their first language) and become respected contributing members of society.
If they don’t want to do that – they can get out.
Exactly.
TOW, This site has a lot of resources to assist in learning different languages including Khmer.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/khmer.htm
True, I’ve got no problem with what you say but what is going on is that “all” of those people don’t want to learn English, they want you to learn their language and create ghetto’s of their own country here
If you keep someone illiterate of English and ignorant of th eConstitution, then the law is what someone says it is, and the subjects can be about their business of obeying with no distracting uppity ideas.
Note that ignorant people are more easily led,and cannot effectively communicate with anyone who might encourage uppitiness.
Sounds kinda familiar, no? Don’t allow the slaves to read, or they might rad something about being free.
Da fuck?! Georgia!?!?
Yup, Very liberal area!
Ok, this explains a number of things. My nephew was a cop in Dekalb, now works for Emery. He and his wife are in love with the concepts of, all illegal immigrants good, white people bad, don’t vaccinate your kids. My poor grand niece has to deal with crappy parents and a crappy school district. Joy!
“[O]ur diversity is our strength.” That right there is enough to boot the SOB from his job. Idiocy.
Diversity is music, food, dress and culture.
Not following the law because you think the country you left had a better code, refusing to learn to communicate in the language of your land and expecting people to “respect” your twisted values is just asking for deportation.
Wonder how much it cost’s to cater to all the languages? Money that could be spent on education
Here is another:
http://eagnews.org/over-100-student-languages-in-iowa-school-district/