(06-17-2014 10:48 PM)TStatebobcat Wrote:  

(06-17-2014 08:58 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(06-17-2014 12:40 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  If you were a parent in a Latin American country, you would do anything to save your children from the conditions these people live in.

Sure...and I'd be willing to suffer any penalty assessed to me for bringing them here in order to let them stay. I'd also demand they learn to speak English in order to assimilate into the melting pot that is America. Unfortunately....this is not what is happening.

This is a complete myth. I don't know who comes up with it. The vast majority and I mean vast majority of kids that go to school here know english. Heck, for most of the kids that I know in this situation the kids know english better than spanish. Sure the first few years they may go to an esl class, but by the time they get to high school most of them talk english without an accent.

Do you not see the inconsistency in these two statements?

(06-18-2014 09:24 PM)Brokeback Flamer Wrote:  

(06-17-2014 10:48 PM)TStatebobcat Wrote:  

(06-17-2014 08:58 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(06-17-2014 12:40 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  If you were a parent in a Latin American country, you would do anything to save your children from the conditions these people live in.

Sure...and I'd be willing to suffer any penalty assessed to me for bringing them here in order to let them stay. I'd also demand they learn to speak English in order to assimilate into the melting pot that is America. Unfortunately....this is not what is happening.

This is a complete myth. I don't know who comes up with it. The vast majority and I mean vast majority of kids that go to school here know english. Heck, for most of the kids that I know in this situation the kids know english better than spanish. Sure the first few years they may go to an esl class, but by the time they get to high school most of them talk english without an accent.

Do you not see the inconsistency in these two statements?

I meant foreign born kids of course. Fo Shizzle stated that these kids don't know and won't learn english. The fact is that it is absolutely not true. The vast majority of these kids know and speak english well. That it takes time for them to learn the language, well that should go without saying. If you are complaining about ESL classes, well that's whole other issue, and there are some very positive solutions to that problem.