From KGW.com:
Some Oregon high schools are adopting Mexico's public school curriculum to help educate Spanish-speaking students with textbooks, an online Web site, DVDs and CDs provided free by Mexico to teach math, science and even U.S. history.
The Oregon Department of Education and Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education are discussing aligning their curricula so courses will be valid in both countries.
Similar ventures are under way in Yakima, Wash., San Diego, Calif., and Austin, Texas.
Am I the only one who thinks there's something desperately wrong with this picture?
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I can fully understand and appreciate the concern that you bring into this blog.
However, I do believe that the approach being adopted by the Oregon and Mexico school systems is a brilliant one indeed. These two groups are choosing to be aggressive in how they handle the influx of "immigrants". Their plan is aggressive in that it seeks to integrate the students as quickly and as early on as possible.
Because it is not likely that the immigrant population will soon go back to the place of their initial migration, it is logical to create long-term productive citizens out of them. This means an aggressive curriculum must be implied. They are choosing to utilize THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEORY. The theory was developed by Howard Gardner of Harvard University in 1991.
In the long run it seems to be a good investment. After one generation of intense integration courses, we should expect the following outcome:
-A group of productive citizens, who, once they enter the workforce, will take on the types of jobs/professions that fall in the category of "significantly taxable income". Then we will begin to see the recycling of tax dollars at work in our public schools-
These are my current thoughts. Good day.
Not to be redundant, but just to prove a point . . .
These two educators are trying to meet a goal. The U.S. Department of Education has some very specific goals to implement nation wide. One primary goal, one that is seen and heard of over and over again, is the need to create "productive citizens" out of students.
Here are three (3) random schools which have, on their homepage, taken this GOAL as an objective of their own:
1) http://www.eurekacityschools.org/grant.html
Objectives
Each student will achieve individual excellence by developing the academic skills necessary to successfully navigate in a global society.
Each student will develop the skills and qualities necessary to become a caring, responsible, productive citizen who celebrates learning.
2)http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/036.htm
John F. Kennedy Elementary School is a neighborhood school with family commitment. Kennedy School offers a challenging curriculum, a safe nurturing learning environment, and an atmosphere that fosters individual responsibility and productive citizenship.
3)http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/OEIAS/grades/5.htm
Beyond the Core
Beyond the Core programs include subjects that are not included in the traditional core education curriculum (Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies). Beyond the Core courses are the classes that enhance the quality of life and are important in developing our students into well-rounded, productive citizens. Below are links to information about the different Beyond the Core programs at the elementary level.
These Educators are simply tring to meet a goal. That is my point.
Here's what I believe is the overriding point:
These children are in America. Their families want to be in America. They are likely to remain in America.
1) If we can identify those who are here illegally and send them home--great!
2)If we can't or won't do #1, then they are likely to continue spending significant time (if not the rest of their lives) in America.
3)If #2 is the case, then they should be educated according to American educational standards if they are going to continue living in America.
Conditions in Mexico continue to be terrible partly because America continues to be the "relief valve" for Mexico. We take care of their most economically depressed, and as this story illustrates, we're even providing educational services for another country.
Mexico will never deal with it's problems of political corruption and economic malaise as long as they can export the consequences of this to America.
So, as with almost every liberal position, under the guise of "compassion" we are once again enabling a problem to continue, rather than just dealing with the problem and correcting it.
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