No, we don’t need to use the treasury to provide services, they can work it out with their sponsors – or find someone to take care of them privately such as the churches. the have for generations and the ties they make to their sponsors ensure no loud music and loud clothing, etc. Not like the home grown ghetto trash who think they can say and do whatever they want and take money from the treasury at the same time.

People value nothing they get for free and act the worse for it. No more government benefit schemes, roll back all the programs we have set up since 1960.

They are Millionaires now. Real Estate, you know. Not sure how they did it. Other refugees here without any family I’ve met. They were parents of children I went to school with. Millionaires. He became an engineer, she a bay area chemist, teacher and politician. They did no remedial ed but did go to state universities. Not that you mention it I’ve run into a lot of penniless immigrants growing up. I met Joyce Kennard – she’s on the CA Supreme Court. I believe she came to the USA as a refugee and wound up in Los Angeles with no relatives and a false leg, pennyless. She went to state schools also. The list goes on.

Remedial Ed, Adult Ed and ESL is not a mandated service of the taxpayers. Anybody who wants that can pay for it or go to church schools. Or get it from private charities.

Our public funds are for the public school districts K-12 and the state colleges and universities which are not for illegal aliens either. It’s been this way for 100 years. We do not need to change this or add extra taxpayer funded doles to refugees. Whoever sponsors refugees can pay for them themselves. And one here they can work and see to their own arrangements. Refugees do get to attend school alongside citizens. So they are well provided for. And they seem to be doing just fine, actually better than the black folks I see. So you see, we need not worry about them (refugees) at all. Worry about the blacks. They are the endangered species – especially the black males.

No more taxes, no more services paid for by the taxpayers.

Brave New World!

The other group I have taught is adult refugees. These people were invited here by our government to have a chance at a decent life after being denied that opportunity in their county of origin . Because of the turmoil often surrounding their need to leave their homeland, many of these people have few skills, practically no money, and no way to learn the language of this country unless they have access to adult education.

These are the people I have taught in numerous school districts across California. I believe from the bottom of my heart that they deserve a chance to better their opportunities to participate in the life of this country and to give their children a decent shot at the American dream.

A veteran ESL teacher

They can join the Salvation Army or the US Army if they can’t make it in the Brave New World. They have no rights to any public support or public funds.

To do otherwise is to invite generations of welfare parasites, like we have since welfare was turned into and entitlement in the mid 1960′s Great Society legislation. Now that we can see the error in that it’s time to cut back and cut off the dole.

And what is the problem with 35% of “the youth” not finishing high school? At least that percentage of Oakland youth do not have the cognitive ability to manage CA High School coursework. They should not have a diploma. If the diploma is to mean anything, people must fail and be denied diplomas because the don’t have the chops to earn one. You don’t get the diploma for just showing up. These people you speak of need to get out and work at whatever menial job they can find and work their way up from there with on the job training and experience and any classroom work they want to go to and pay for on their own time.

The educational budget we are going to have for K-12 is to be spent there, not on pursuing adult failures and pouring taxpayer money over their heads.

There is another way that ESL and other adult classes can be offered right now. Over a dozen of us have been assigned to the High School Credit Recovery Program. This serves young people who have dropped out and want to come back to get a High School diploma or those currently enrolled who need to make-up credits in classes they previously failed. The program is tremendously important in a city where about 35% of our youth never finish High School.

At the same time, these classes are heavily underenrolled, particularly from 10:45-3:30. Adult Ed teachers through our union (OEA) have formally suggested to the OUSD Administration that a certain percentage of us who are willing be reassigned to teach ESL either through the Family Literacy program or in ESL classes open to all. Thus students currently enrolled in Credit Recovery (with lots of room for expansion) and students who currently have no opportunity for school, particularly in ESL, could both be offered classes.

“Humanity” may be your concept for waste and decadence. It’s not what I say that word means.

Maybe you should have a look at “The virtue of selfishness” by Ayn Rand. Or just study economics. This is a supposedly free country and other people do not dance to your tune. Your concept of “help” is nothing other than domination, which is always backed up by a police state. Yes, you’d need that police state to collect the taxes and make sure the recipients of your “help” don’t get “discriminated” against as they tear their communities apart.

And as far as “help the world” – by that do you mean interfere with the world?

I rather think you are a statist, a socialist, a collectivist, a Marxist. You coat those concepts in terms of “helping” people until you dominate all life.

No thanks. You can’t get elected, you can’t stay elected. Your policy only brings doom, across history and even now. Those of us old enough to remember what life was like in the mid 20th century prefer the opportunities then to the straightjackets being passed around now.