Poverty is a result of employers (THE BOARD of DIRECTORS and CEO’S) who keep all the profits for themselves in order to get filthy rich. Read how filthy rich Rockefeller, Carnegie and Mellon where and how poor thier employees were. They reasoned that the dumber you are the more they can justify keeping all the profits for themselves.

This did not change until governments mandated wage increases and allowed unions to operate without persecution from the social elite.

Poverty is now most often a result of international MEGA corporations taking huge profits from incredibly impoverished international workers. The countries they work in suppress labor unions and do not guarantee minimum living wages, thus they are treated as “sub-human” wage earners.

In fact, I don’t think many people here are able to understand the profound effects of poverty on many aspects of the human condition. I consider myself blessed in that I had some old country blacks and some salt of the earth West Virginians from the Appalachian region help me see past my own middle-classness. It was a real eye opener in so many ways. I hope the knowledge they imparted to me has made me a more empathetic human being. If it has, then I thank them sincerely.

I should like to point out that I would absolutely NOT have allowed her to participate in a public pre-k program (despite the fact that I had to sacrifice much to have her in private) because they would have demanded that she go straight into kindergarten at too early an age. Being intellectually ready for fast-tracking is one thing…being SOCIALLY and EMOTIONALLY ready are quite different considerations. I don’t care how smart these kids are, I don’t feel that government mandated education should include pre-k and, in fact, believe that it will be treated as free babysitting by most. I would also fear that children who could intellectually benefit from pre-k will be held back by those kids being “babysitted”…so what’s the point? WE’RE supposed to be the parents, not the state.

I am not knocking my mother, she had the best and still has the best intentions for us..
Yes, let kids be kids. I remember taking turns with my brother to go out and HEAT the van up before we would have to get in it for our long journey.

I agree with a lot of what you say, but when these 4 year olds are not making the grade, do we start 3 year old pre-k?

When can a kid be a kid? We put so much pressure on these kids anymore maybe that’s why they go out and murder people at mall’s.

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Dear Friends,

I want to update you on some legislation I’m working on, and hope you will continue to keep me informed on matters of importance to you.

Immigration Reform & Border Security
Last month I added my name as a cosponsor to two important pieces of legislation aimed at combating illegal immigration.

SAVE Act
The Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act would increase the number of Border Patrol agents by 8,000 and create a pilot program to increase aerial surveillance, satellite and equipment sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. It also would increase the investigative abilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by employing more agents and training additional state and local law enforcement personnel.

In addition, the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) would expand the existing Employment Eligibility Verification (E-Verify) program by requiring that all employers enroll within four years. This would ensure that all workers hired have a valid work permit. The expanded program would begin with the federal government, federal contractors, and employers with over 250 employees. Smaller businesses would begin using the system in a graduated manner.

The bill also would close existing loopholes that allow illegal immigrants to use the same Social Security number and would require information-sharing between the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration and the IRS. Lastly, it would expedite the deportation of illegal aliens by expanding detention capacity and increasing the number of Federal District Court judges. The SAVE Act has 112 bipartisan cosponsors.

Prevention of Unsafe Licensing Act
I also cosponsored The Prevention of Unsafe Licensing Act (H.R. 4176), a bill which would restrict illegal aliens’ access to driver’s licenses by mandating that states must be provided with valid Social Security numbers during the application process.

Driver’s licenses are accepted for a variety of purposes including opening bank accounts, travel, renting cars, purchasing homes, just to name a few. The security of these documents are of critical importance. The 19 hijackers responsible for 9/11 carried 13 driver’s licenses and 21 state-issued ID cards. This bill has over 163 cosponsors and I am hopeful that this bill will come to the House floor during this session of Congress.

While the House has yet to consider any major immigration reform during this session of Congress, earlier this year the Senate considered an immigration reform bill which included provisions that would amount to a virtual amnesty for certain people who are in our country illegally — some estimate that could be 12 million people or more. I do not support amnesty, which is an insult to all the law-abiding immigrants who have been waiting in line patiently and legally for their immigration number to come up. Such an amnesty would only intensify an already significant immigration problem and overwhelm our already overburdened social services and law enforcement systems.

Please be assured of my commitment to addressing illegal immigration, which I know is a growing concern for many citizens of the 10th District. Please visit www.wolf.house.gov if you need additional information on this or any other issues.

Best wishes.

What it does is redistribute the bulk of instructional premium time to sub group students rather than to regular students. Because of the penalties attached to not making AYP, school decisions are often based on giving priority to students who are sped, minority, ESOL or economically disadvantaged rather than the other kids.

NCLB is very complicated and has many various components. Even people who work with it daily don’t necessarily know or understand all of its ramifications.

Assimilation is the best thing immigrants can do for themselves and their families. This includes learning English. I know when I was in the philippines, I learned enough Tagalog to get by. I couldn’t hold an everyday discussion, but I assimilated enough to know how to get around and how to ask for certain things (paki, gusto mo San Miguel comes to mind right away) translated: Please bring me another San Miguel beer. OK OK, I was a sailor (c: Of course there are other conversational tidbits I learned, but are not fitting for this family oriented blog (c; The point is, I was in the PI for 18 months and took the time to assimilate enough to get by. The local people were excited that I took the time to learn their language and would help me when I messed it up.

Children are such a low priority. It’s a disgrace - they’ve become disposable.

Think about it like this. Scenario 1: A single parent (other parent is dead) murders someone or commits a crime and goes to jail. What should happen to that child?

Scenario 2: A child with two parents is at school one day and BOTH parents commit crimes which warrant prison time, what happens to the child.

In BOTH cases, the child is the innocent party, yet DIRECTLY affected by the actions of the parent.

Scenario3: A child is here in the United States and both parents are here illegally and are caught by ICE. What should happen to the child?

Maybe the illegals’ should think of their children before entering the US illegally.

Now, about pre-K. My mom is a nursery school teacher in one of the top Nursery Schools in the area. Her class has one, maybe two native speakers (back down, libs, you know what I mean). One of the major problems is lack of ability to communicate. These children do not understand English as it is not their first language and THEIR parent’s are here LEGALLY.

The children typically come from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and yes, a few from Central and South America. Mom is NOT trained to speak all of their languages (she does speak a little Greek, though) and what happens is that she is forced to take time away from others to try to calm down a crying child who does not understand the language.

And THIS is at a PRIVATE nursery school. I once dated a teacher in the Fairfax County School System (6th Grade teacher) who would get assignments turned in in Spanish. By the sheer fact that the illegals (those who overstayed Visas, those who snuck across our borders) are here are not just putting a drain on our system, but also on our teachers. It is bad enough that a teacher has to dumb down the classwork, or teach at a speed that all can understand, but when they have to deal with children who do not want to be in this country in the first place and refuse to speak English…something is wrong and the solution is QUITE easy…you pay taxes, you get a Federal free education, you are here illegally, you should have thought about that before you broke the law, Jack.

But that doesn’t mean we take out our frustrations on kids.

They demand results with NCLB, but failed to fund it. My mom is a teacher in IL and she, along with her fellow teachers, hate it. They have to dumb down everything so everyone can pass. I am sorry, but some people will fail in life no matter what. Schooling is no different. The problem is too many requirements without funding to make sure they an be implemented. This is really no different than Congress telling the Generals in Iraq what to do. They are not in the trenches, so to speak, so it is easy to say this and that has to be done.

Secure the borders, use the extra cash saved from providing ILLEGALS with services and make everybody’s life much better.