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Old 12-05-2014, 12:03 PM
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Default You'll love this letter, it lays out the truth

This is a letter written to our town newspaper. There are both Hispanics and Whites, Democrats and Republicans that applaud this letter. It has spread like wild fire.
While I was interviewing one of the school board members (education is saturated with the far left) and asked from the other side of the room what he thought of the letter, he responded "It was terrible " I then said, "I thought it was perfect" He walked over to me and asked, "You didn't think it was racist?" I responded NO, and he continued to blather how racist it was. Well at that point I began to get a bet angrier by the second. I can tell you, I didn't just let it stop at that. I gave the whole Board a big piece of my mind, and let them know what failures they are and exactly where that failure stems from just as the letter states. I'm media, so they legally have to let me attend every meeting. I'm there to report on what they're up to, not be their friend. If they do something right, I report it, if they screw up, I report that too. Our whole school district is in what is called "Program Improvement" and after three consecutive years of PI, the state take over the district removing the board and what ever staff they want.

Here's the letter;


To the Editor:
Regarding the recent Fillmore school board elections, which were thoroughly covered in these pages, it seems to me that none of the candidates proposed new methods of improving test scores and graduation rates. We're tired of hackneyed plans that include hiring “better” teachers and throwing more money at the schools. No one seems to be interested in confronting the “elephant in the room”: the fact that the students spend the vast majority of their lives outside of the classroom and that this is where they get the vast majority of their education.
Problem #1 A foreign language is predominantly spoken at many Fillmore homes. This means very few books, magazines or TV programming in our national language, let alone discussions that can expand vocabularies and introduce ideas that are pertinent to life in America. Sending a kid to kindergarten when he or she can’t speak English? Really?
Problem #2: Home cultures that foster a lack of assimilation into American society with its concept of upward mobility through education. The culture that's imported from most third-world countries doesn't emphasize class mobility, personal responsibility or pursuit of excellence. I’d like to know how many kids have parents that are doctors, engineers, accountants or other professionals. Any?
Problem #3: Parental role modeling that is linked to the foreign model of a huge subclass of virtual peasants being overseen by a powerful central government. The theme that parents are foreigners (in spirit, if not by citizenship) living in a foreign country instead of being fledgling Americans who are adopting the ways of their new country.
Problem #4: The creation of a Fillmore society in which an immigrant can live very comfortably without dealing with American ways. Ballots are written in foreign languages even though competence in spoken and written English is required for citizenship. It's been made very easy for families to live their lives without knowing a word of English and for all intents and purposes to live a Latin American lifestyle while enjoying the benefits of American wealth, culture, education and a welfare society.
Basically, we can't have a school district with foreign language-speaking, poorly educated families with little interest in assimilation into the American way of life and then expect to have their children excel academically and prosper economically. Given the environments most of these kids are coming from, how can we expect more than bottom test scores and few high school graduates? Happy talk from prospective politicians and school board members can’t change the realities of the students’ world outside of school. The solution is going to be hugely difficult, but failing to address the cause of the problem isn't a good way to get started with fixing it.
Tim Imhoff
Fillmore

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