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Title: Students kicked off school bus in St. Paul (For Speaking English)
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KSP TV
URL Source: http://kstptv5.com/article/stories/S21143.html?cat=1
Published: Jan 10, 2007
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2007-01-10 14:07:52 by Horse
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Views: 218
Comments: 5
Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can't get on because they speak English. That's right, English. It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing. Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn't take them home that afternoon. Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School. Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only. "I was furious. I was at work and I was just mad." Armstrong said. "I felt like we were being discriminated because we speak English. Just because they speak English, they can't ride the school bus. I mean, this is America, right?" Administrators at St. Paul Public Schools admit the district made a mistake when it stranded the kids at school Monday. However, the district points out, that particular bus route serves one of three language academies. The one at Phalen Lake is for Hmong students learning English. The academies all have separate bus routes to keep its students together. The district decided to enforce the separate routes beginning Monday, but it did not tell the Armstrong family. "It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of these kids and we made a mistake. The kids should have gotten home that day," Dayna Kennedy, a public relations representative said. The district also discovered the Armstrongs no longer live in the Phalen Lake School boundary because they moved last year. So even though the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
Poster Comment: In Oakland one class had 19 Chinese-speaking kids in a class that taught them English using Mandarin Chinese as the language of instruction. The 20th slot was filled by an African American second grader who knew no Chinese and was confused by what was happeneing. After some publicity he was taken out of the Chinese speaking class. Six weeks later after the press coverage died down he was sent back into the Chinese class as he was the only student they could find who knew some words of Mandarin. Government tax dollars at work. I have no follow up on what happened to the young man whose parents could not afford a private school.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
The open border freaks among us should find comfort in this gem.
"It is our responsibility to ensure the safety of these kids and we made a mistake. The kids should have gotten home that day," Dayna Kennedy, a public relations representative said. Isn't that special. BTW, that's one awful story out of Oakland.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus
The people running the St. Paul school district should be summarily fired. This idea of letting people keep their backward ass culture, and their language while living here in America at the expense of the taxpayers of Minnesota, is ASININE. If you can't speak English at school, that's one thing. If you can't speak English when going home, THAT'S ANOTHER CROCK OF SHIT ENTIRELY. Jesus Christ, what the fuck is going on in this state??? Every single fucking idiot in the St. Paul school district who has been brainwashed with this world citizen shit needs to be fired OUT OF A FUCKING CANNON AND SHOT DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN. It's this kind of shit that has destroyed the educational system of this country. THIS is the reason my children will be homeschooled. I cannot abide the notion that some fucking half-wit will brainwash my child or discriminate against my child because they speak ENGLISH FIRST.
#2. To: Horse, *The Border* (#0)
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The district decided to enforce the separate routes beginning Monday, but it did not tell the Armstrong family.
#3. To: Horse (#0)
 | This country's priorities are all fucked up. |
#4. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
Good plan bump to a whacky thread
THIS is the reason my children will be homeschooled. I cannot abide the notion that some fucking half-wit will brainwash my child or discriminate against my child because they speak ENGLISH FIRST.
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." Sun-tzu
#5. To: Horse (#0)
Illegal discrimination by all standards.
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