Oregon public schools using Mexican government-supplied lessons
Open-borders insanity. Via Orbusmax, the Oregonian reports that American public schools are taking directions and materials from the Mexican government to teach immigrant student math, science, and US history in Spanish. Really:
Oregon is counting on a new tool to educate Spanish-speaking students across state schools: Mexico’s curriculum.
Already in place at three Oregon high schools, the programs aims to use textbooks, a detailed online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided for free by the Mexican government to teach math, science and even U.S. history to Spanish speakers in Oregon.
Conversations are under way between the Oregon Department of Education and Mexico’s secretary of public education to align the curriculums of Oregon and Mexico so many courses in Mexico will be valid here and vice versa. The innovative move puts Oregon on par with other educators nationwide who have launched similar ventures in Yakima; San Diego, Calif.; and Austin, Texas.
It’s quite a little industry:
In Washington, nearly 30 schools have already implemented Mexico’s curriculum into the classrooms. Yakima School District was among the first, drawing educators from across the state who traveled to the schools to learn about the new method.
“We’re seeing them score higher,” on standardized tests, said Jorge Herrera, the coordinator who manages the programs for the state. “And more are staying in school.” Annually, staffing the programs in Yakima schools costs an estimated $60,000, he said.
In Oregon, it may be too soon to measure cost because the program is in its infancy. Learning materials are free, but school districts must pay for staff. So far, two computer servers used to support Mexico’s Web site cost the state about $10,000 to install and about $2,200 annually to maintain.
One of the biggest challenges will be finding more Spanish-speaking instructors, Burk said. State education figures show that about 15 percent of Oregon students are Latino, compared with 2 percent of teachers.
And where are they hiring Spanish-speaking instructors?
From Mexico, of course. This one’s via the Salt Lake Tribune:
Ariana Bernuy walked up to her teacher with a handful of paper. “¿Los boto? ” (Do I throw them away?) she asked.
“Sí” responded Alejandra Esquivel, a new teacher at Stansbury Elementary School, 3050 S. 2700 West.
For students such as Bernuy, starting the school year with a bilingual teacher such as Esquivel is a welcome relief. “She speaks my language and because I’ve recently arrived, she can translate what I don’t understand,” Bernuy said in Spanish.
Esquivel is one of 10 teachers hired this summer from Mexico as part of an agreement between Utah and the Mexican Ministry of Education.
The state’s new visiting teacher program allows the teachers to legally work in public schools in “high-need” areas for up to three years. Their salaries and benefits are the same as Utah teachers who have similar experience, according to the agreement.
Viva multiculturalism!
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Schools aren’t educating American citizens so that kids can read and do math, but they are worried about teaching illegal immigrants? Have you ever watched Leno asked people questions on the street? It’s appalling. Wish those schools would put as much effort into teaching Americans the basics so I have someone working to make payments into the Social Security so I can collect what I have put into the program…if it even exists then..
Stealth subjugation at its finest.
These kids will never learn English. They will not assimilate. They want to expand Mexico north, I guess.
Hey, why not have Mexican school buses follow the Mexican truckers on through! Just because a kid is stuck in Mexico does not mean they are not entitled to an American education in Spanish!
I wonder what that American history cirricula from the Mexican government is all about. Do they teach that LaRaza, reconquista stuff right under our noses?
This is blatant racism. No one will care until it’s too late, then it will get ugly. Where are we going if we put up with this Invasion?
Now that’s something. Wasn’t O’Reilly just talking about winning the hearts and minds of the people.
…absolutely
California has been hiring teachers from Mexico for years.
And the Mexican government often sends lawmakers to smooth the way with lawmakers: http://www.ocblog.net/ocblog/2007/09/solorio-hosting.html#more
I thought we Americans were supposed to decide how the country is run!
I can’t believe this is in Oregon. They should investigate every family for deportation of everyone who signs up for that curriculum.
This is really absurd.
“I have heard of patriotism in the United States, and I have found true patriotism among the people, but never among the leaders of the people.”–Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
If they really feel that they need curricula in Spanish, why don’t they look to our own country for it? Puerto Rico is part of the United States, and Spanish is their official language.
What chumps they are to get curricula from Mexico!
I’ll keep this simple:
Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane Beyond insane.
By all means, let’s just invite the whole world into the US, not as contributors of this country, but to set up their own little flag so as to do nothing more than siphon off our economy. Isn’t that what they’re here for, by Gerry River’s own pronouncement? To make more MONEY? When the Enron guys broke the law doing that, they went to prison.
This is beyond normal. Are there any Americans in Oregon? Is this where the California nut cases went after crime by illegal Mexicans and Black street gangs drove them from California?
We can all hope that someday soon, the San Andreas fault will release a really big quake. California, Oregon, and Washington will float off into the Pacific. Then they can do whatever pleases Mexico, as their own country.
How about we send all these open-borders supporters to another country and let them see how much the governments and people there will go out of their way to produce everything from sales ads and signs to education in English just for them … simply put … NO WAY!
Try going to France as an example … be sure you either speak some French or have a good dictionary and phrase book at the ready … other than a tourist situation where they want your money they will not even try to speak English with you … they will not go out of their way in most cases to even try to accomodate your lack of French language skills …
Enough is enough has moved beyond being enough … it has become too much …
“Only here doing jobs Americans don’t want to do.” — GWB
Gracias para no hablar espanol.
Exponentially increasing insanity.
It’s how indoctrination works.
Make kids think that the Mexicans are helpless, and we are the only ones who can help them. The more they’re taught that, the more they’re converted to it.
Hey, remember when schools actually did what they were supposed to do? Ha ha ha! Those were the good ol days!
Thursday Morning Greetings Mrs. Malkin and loyal community. Many thanks for keeping on top of the “shamnesty” incubus as no one else will. As per the telephones, fax-machines, and e-mails, I must allow that in California’s 48th Congressional District, our John Campbell has been as clear-headed and zealous as any in opposition to the open-borders movement. But with the Senate duo of Feinstein and Boxer, we are quite underwater in trying to save ourselves.
The philosophical legacy of the 1960s and 70s in the universities is upon us: the individuals and combinations who devise and implement such educational programs in Oregon as described (and are ready to do so elsewhere at the drop of a hat) were trained and inspired by their social sciences and liberal arts college professors to despise the soul of their country when they were students back then. For their assistants trained in the 1980s and 1990s, it has only gotten worse. Their reflexive response to national enemies, be they MEChA-Aztlan or any stripe of Islamist, is reflexive, active, enthusiastic collaboration.
Effective resistance to America’s national enemies of external origin cannot take place until the extensive dryrot within has been decisively dealt with.
It seems that Mrs. Malkin’s carefully tended campfire is the only place to warm the shivering hands!
Next up: The left DEMANDING that we learn Spanish.
It’s time for the American Citizens to wake up and take our country back!
That might be a better question. Why should anyone bother assimilating when we just bend over backwards to keep them from having to do it?!
This is one of many reasons the wife and I decided not to go home to Oregon when I retired from the Air Force. Matter of fact we consider most of the left coast off limits (anything west of the Cascades, eastern Oregon with the exception of Bend and Washington are nothing but conservative). Although we do have a migrant head start school I pass every morning on my way to work at the local AFB, which continues to twist my gut every time I drive by it knowing my tax dollars are paying for this facility and the buses that deliver these children to it. It’s their parent’s fault they are here, but why the heck do I have to pay for it.
The learning materials from Mexico teach that the American Southwest belongs to Mexico and is called Aztlan.This is part of the Mexican invasion of the USA called reconquista being willfully supported by our own Government.
I urge you to go to this website and read it for yourselves:
Under the euphuism ‘Hispanic Homeland’ and ‘Nation of Aztlan,’ activists from numerous organizations including Mexican American Legal Defense and La Raza (The Race) activists are attempting to annex large portions of SW United States to Mexico. “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is “an inevitability” says Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico. He further states the new “Hispanic Homeland” should be brought into being “by any means necessary.”
A ‘Hispanic Homeland’ could be written off as the work of extremists were it not for wide-spread support by Mexicans. A June 2002 Zogby poll of Mexicans found that a substantial majority of Mexican citizens believe that southwestern America is rightfully the territory of Mexico and that Mexicans do not need the permission of the U.S. to enter. The poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, “The territory of the United States’ southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico.” Zogby said 28 percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren’t sure.
We are being invaded by Mexico and they are being aided and abetted by our own schools and the Government.
Here is another:
Aztlan: Conspiracy To Overthrow The American Southwest By Force!
Some would call this Treason, how about you?
You know - for all the beauty there is here in Oregon, there sure are a lot of dummies.
This is yet another reason we need to eliminate the Dept of Education and any and all federal funding of primary and secondary schools. At least I don’t have to support this stupidity then.
Are you also going to condemn the Lycee Francais in New York City? That’s a school that uses the French curriculum on Americans. It’s one of the prestige Manhattan schools, along with Dalton, and the rest.
Sure - just as soon as 20 million French people run across the border from France. Don’t you ever get it?
Boomer, I live in Eastern Washington. I could never live on the West side with all of the liberals around.
You do realize that you are part of the problem, right?
I’ll be back later. I am surfing the ‘net to find out when Oregon became part of Mexico……………