(1) You can rest assured Howrey (Plaintiff’s counsel) has the resources to fight this out.

(2) This wasn’t a decision on the merits. It’s still possible that Plaintiffs could find folks with standing to challenge the statute.

(3) Standing issues can be awfully complex and it’s a little surprising that the Judge granted the motion from the bench w/o a thorough explanation.

I know this is probably a true story but that’s about crazy…was the parent that stupid to believe the school would send such a letter? I think language was a problem but the big issue there was common sense. As a parent, regardless of language, I think warning bells would go off in my head if my kid told me that. The parent needs to be the one to attend school, on how to be a parent!

I think I would have laughed…all the way to my kids bedroom where I would force him to lay in bed until he fell asleep.

Seems like a combination of non-assimilation and lazy parenting.

Historically, waves of immigrants who live in cloistered communities who are ‘right off the boat’ don’t learn English. Why don’t they? It isn’t necessary for them learn English to function. If you look at the immigration of Poles, Italians, Greeks and Jews, for example, you will see pretty much the same thing. Those who left the protection of larger city enclaves and went to smaller areas with fewer ethnic communities, learned English faster and therefore assimilated faster.

This appears to be a human condition, rather than laziness. The kids learn English in school and the assimilation process speeds up. There would not be the emphasis on ESOL were it not for state and federally mandated tests.

as a speaker of multiple languages I’ll tell you that children learn languages far easier than adults. As a former student of the defense language institute I know how hard learning languages can be. However my point wasnt that they couldnt learn, it’s that they snow the adults and the adults refuse to assimilate.

That said, adults who make the effort can learn as well too…it’s just that these particular folks choose not too. That’s called laziness.

I dont have my kids translate for me and they learn both english and german and my daughter can speak both almost equally with english being dominant.

You have hit the nail on the head. Kids are bad enough about pulling the wool over their parents’ eyes. If you have a non-English speaking parent, the kids are able to pull off even bigger heists than their native born counterparts with English speaking parents. This is a huge problem for schools, especially if no translator is available. So many people look at this as a benefit to the illegal population. It isn’t. It is a benefit to the schools when they need to tell the parents that their child needs a kick in the tail or that their child is failing, misbehaving, needs to shape up, etc.

People who do not learn English simply have no power over their own destiny or the destiny of their children. This problem is not exclusive to the hispanic population. It has been an ear-mark of immigrant populations who arrived from non-English speaking countries throughout our history as a country.

Actually,I have to agree with you as in another way to “manipulate” parents. How is that being a responsible parent, knowing you can be snowed even more…how responsible is that?
That is what I think as a mother of teenagers

Basically what I said.

“Other jurisdictions act now…”

Especially those under the jurisdiction of that Judge.

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James C. Cacheris
United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia.

The Eastern District of Virginia has within its jurisdiction the following counties and independent cities:

Counties: Accomack, Amelia, Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Gloucester, Goochland, Greensville, Hanover, Henrico, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Loudoun, Lunenburg, Mathews, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, New Kent, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Prince William, Richmond, Southampton, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Surry, Sussex, Westmoreland, York.

Cities: Alexandria, Chesapeake, Colonial Heights, Emporia, Fairfax, Falls Church, Franklin, Fredericksburg, Hampton, Hopewell, Manassas, Manassas Park, Newport News, Norfolk, Petersburg, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Richmond, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg.

the kids speaking english for their parents so they dont have too. I actually saw this at my local giant this evening, a young kid speaking but the mom sat their mute in line. I never really paid it much attention though until recently when I started seeing alot of it.

what’s really cool, is that my kids private school isnt full of non-english speaking kids. The only un-cool thing about it, I have to pay big bucks for it. I definitely could use that cash to some other purpose, like buying a bigger house or dumping more cash into savings.

I would love to put my kids in public school, but I just cant now.

josh

Oh, I believe PWC is a test case and many jurisdictions were waiting to see what would become of this before they enact their own resolutions. And they should start now, and not wait for the appeal (if any) decision.

Open the flood gates and let them file suits and appeals. Keep ‘em bogged down and bankrupt them.

maybe “jorges” parents need to make sure his a&& is in school.

I went to walmart today about 11:00am and saw about 10-15 hispanic school age kids on bikes way to small for them orbiting the parking lot. Wonder where there parents are? why are they not in school?

My theory is that for the younger grades k-4 or so, they are just looking for free, tax-payer provided daycare provided by the school system while they work. Then once they are old enough the parents probably dont give a damn if they go to school or not so they likely hit the streets during the day.

It seems to make a bit of sense, the kindergardens in this area are packed with hispanic kids who no habla…..