RE: I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?
July 23, 2016 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2016 at 12:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 23, 2016 at 12:37 pm)wallym Wrote: Well, they have to learn the language. And we'd have to give them money for a home. And then we'd have to send them to school. And then we'd have to have their kids go to school. Pay for healthcare. Hope they are smart enough to get a degree. Etc... Basically, you can invest a few 100k getting a refugee family up to speed, or bring in an Indian family that can hit the ground running.Sure...if they're -all- a bunch of moochers and there's -no- opportunity..we'd have to do that...perish the thought..in the richest country in the world..? It's not as if we're super generous with our welfare and assistance programs in the first place.
Quote:I know you don't like quantifying people like that, but there aren't infinite resources.I don't know that english teachers are really doing all that well with homegrown efl's....seen our scores? I'm okay with people talking funny, using regional dialects...and even speaking in their own native language. American english (english in general) is a bastard tongue in the first place. Yet another example of how the things that people point to as "problems" enrich our very lives.
It's crazy the burden on teachers/schools non-english language students are from the beginning. And that's just kids with educated parents in good schools. And those ESL teachers are just money that could be going elsewhere. Whether it's more STEM stuff for the bright kids, or more teachers aides for the struggling schools.
Wondering why we're here, now...when the initial objection was "terrorists". Was the objection ever actually terrorists at all?
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