For Some Texas Schools, Demographic Future is Now
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Certain characteristics set the Laredo Independent School District apart from most districts in the state.
Its western boundary aligns directly with the Mexican border. Nearly all its students are poor, and nearly all are Hispanic. Most rely on the school to provide two meals a day. On the first day of school this week, some showed up without shoes or without parents accompanying them.
“It’s hard to work on teaching them about reading and writing and math when they haven’t eaten. It’s hard to really welcome them into their class with their textbooks and their ...
Comments (5)
Cris Sleightholm
Does Mexico pay any Texas school taxes? Of course not.
Proud Texan
What those kids need is a good voucher program. That's what some politicians think anyway. How about we give public schools the resources they need to meet the ever-increasing demands rather than spend time and energy worrying about 4% of kids who want the state to pay for their private school?
Texas Parents Opt Out of State Tests via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A bright future for Texas is dependent upon all of us working together to improve the quality of instruction at our neighborhood schools. Charter schools, voucher programs, inequitable funding and high-stakes testing are all barriers to integration and cooperation amongst our children. The children of Texas are the future of Texas; let us invest wisely.
cca
Excellent article on a subject that desperately needs to be addressed for the economic future of Texas, as well as the US. These children are our future.
James Wilson
Unfortunately, money spent on teaching English to these children, feeding them, clothing them is money that should be spent on helping tax-payer's kids and keeping them above the curve of other public schools around the country. Time spent on Hispanics is time wasted furthering the education of those that have a basic education but must sit back and wait for these to catch up. There is a problem with making things equal: those that are on the low end get raised but those on the high end come down to make that scale balanced. America is spending too much time and energy balancing things while wasting the talents of its smartest ,its brightest.