[quote=bearishgurl][quote=carli]. . . I’m sure you’ve noticed the motto of Rich’s Piggington forum listed at the bottom of the page, “In God We Trust. Everyone Else Bring Data.” I believe you and I fall under the “Everyone Else” category. :-)[/quote]carli, I have been out of town all week. I DID post links but you failed to read the links (especially the CA links) and watch the videos. The kids themselves interviewed in the links I provided stated that there is an underground network at their SD South County school where they try to alert each other if any of the other border crossing student’s residency is questioned by their school (usually triggered by poor attendance and punctuality, falling asleep in class, etc). In one link, the protagonist clearly stated that he “thought” there were 100 students at his (Chula Vista) high school who reside in MX (likely a lower estimate than reality) and that he had to camp on the floor of his “aunt’s” house for a month when he was tipped off by a fellow border-crossing student that he might have a home visit from the school to inquire about his residency. (This is not uncommon, btw). My OWN kids have even told me numerous times over the years that dozens of their classmates admitted to them that they live in MX! Even when they were in elementary school and I asked, “why don’t you invite xyz to your birthday party,” they would respond, “Oh, he/she lives in TJ and won’t be able to come.”
SUHSD administrators admitted in one link that I provided here that they had no way of verifying the information given to them by prospective or continuing students’ parent (or adults pretending to be parents) and had to depend on the addresses and “guardianship affidavits” filed to establish residency as being the truth.
The reason I posted links as old as 25 years here is because I wanted to emphasize how long this charade has actually been going on! (It’s actually been going on as far back as I remember but it is much more “lucrative” today for a MX student to attend school in the US because the differences in the quality between the public schools in the two countries is markedly greater now than it was in the ’70’s and ’80’s.) In any case, most of the links I posted were from the last four years.
You’re another one who needs to flick the flies off your starched cuffs from your lofty seat in your NIMBY tower (30+ miles away from the int’l border?) and put on your glasses. I brought data. I ALWAYS bring data. I have had hundreds of folders of bookmarks FULL of data for YEARS in one of my browsers. If you choose not to READ, WATCH and LEARN, that’s on YOU!
Just like with the serious problems CA residents have with Covered CA and Medi-Cal under the ACA and the dozens of links I furnished for your information on that thread, you don’t and didn’t read any of them because you really don’t want to know. Why?? Because these issues don’t affect YOU or YOUR kids. Plain and simple.[/quote]
Ok, got it, now you’ve added some weird personal attacks about my family and me to your false claims, anecdotes, and previously posted articles about the plight of border kids trying to get an education. Nothing you’ve provided qualifies as actual data. Show me a study or anything that could be considered factual that supports your claims.
Remember, you claimed we are spending “a fortune” and “billions” on the situation and that we’re paying for 25% more schools, teachers and administrators in South County than necessary due to non-resident children. But I can’t find anything to support that. Can you?
I’ll wait. And until then, I’m not interested in going around and around so you can spout more hate about immigration and make uninformed, nasty statements about my family and me. Thank you.
