Education (Not Just UT)--Trump pushes for school choice with Executive order

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Fort Worth ISD substitute teacher urges ICE to investigate her campus for illegal aliens. FWISD puts that teacher under investigation and removes her from the classroom.




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Local elected leaders express support for teacher who urged ICE to visit school

Local Republican elected officials express support for Fort Worth substitute teacher who urged ICE to come to Northside High School.
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“We are aware of a recent social media post referencing North Side High School, which was allegedly made by a substitute teacher and has caused concern among our Fort Worth ISD community,” the statement reads.

The alleged post was made on X in a response to ICE’s account on the platform on Jan. 23, NBC 5 reported.

“Y’all should come to Fort Worth, TX to Northside High School. I have many students who don’t even speak English, and they are in 10th-11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me. The @USEDGOV should totally overhaul our school system in Texas,” the post reportedly said. "
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This is a huge problem in schools. I would suggest that even if an immigrant child is legal, they should be held back in grade unless/until they can speak and write english at grade level. A child that can't communicate in english with their teacher takes 4 to 5 times as much energy and attention to teach. The teacher, the system and the child are all better off if the child first learns english and then advances to the next grade. You can continue to give the child automated (khan academy) type lessons in other material but this child should spend 4-5 hours a day on basic english skills until they are at grade level.
 
BOSD,

There are massive logistical problems which I never considered until I became close friends with an ESL teacher who teaches in a public HS in suburban Houston. She is of Mexican descent, being the third generation of her family born in Houston, graduated from public HS, has a BA in education and an MBA in Business.

She has 5-6 classes a day, but has not had a Mexican in any of her classes in over a decade. I do not know exact numbers, but a typical class will have kids from 5-6 different Central & South American countries, each with it's own dialect of Spanish. Throw in some from Africa and the Middle East (particularly Afghanistan) and I don't know how she gets anything done.
 
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BOSD,

There are massive logistical problems which I never considered until I became close friends with an ESL teacher who teaches in a public HS in suburban Houston. She is of Mexican descent, being the third generation of her family born in Houston, graduated from public HS, has a BA in education and an MBA in Business.

She has 5-6 classes a day, but has not had a Mexican in any of her classes in over a decade. I do not know exact numbers, but a typical class will have kids from 5-6 different Central & South American countries, each with it's own dialect of Spanish. Throw in some from Africa and the Middle East (particularly Afghanistan) and I don't know how she gets anything done.
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I think we are agreeing, but mom was an ESL teacher as well. The challenge is not only that they take a lot of extra time to teach. That would be bad enough, but what also happens is that the kids become behavioral problems because they are always behind their peers, and many give up because they feel dumb. This obviously compounds the problem. And because we don't deal with their lack of english proficiency their first year in US schools, we create the same issue for the teachers that receive that kid next year when they get promoted for the sake of political correctness or schools keeping their average up.
 
We need thousands of people across the US doing this sort of thing in schools all over - not just on this issue but on many.

 
The issue of non English speaking students is diverse not just Texas or border states. It’s terrible in Utah of all places, and in Tenn that I know about. It makes for a very difficult classroom.
 
Significant news on the school choice front. Trump's Executive order:

"CBS listed several aspects of the order, including directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to submit a plan for how military families can use available funds to send their children to schools they choose.

It also directs the Department of Education to prioritize school choice with grant programs and instructs the Department of Human Services to help states determine how federal block grants can be used for faith-based schools."

 
"CBS stated this upcoming report will show 40 percent of fourth-graders aren't meeting reading levels.

This is the highest percentage ever reported, according to CBS, while fourth-graders and eighth-graders are becoming less proficient in reading.

A massive 70 percent of eighth-graders were not proficient in reading and even more, 72 percent, were not proficient in math, according to CBS."

At this rate, before too long, the Central African Republic will surpass us in primary and secondary education...
 

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K-12 schooling​

Trump’s executive order on “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” would prohibit federal funding for schools that include what the administration describes as “gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom.”

The order is expected to say the attorney general will work with state and local legal officials to “file actions against teachers and school officials who sexually exploit minors or practice medicine without a license through ‘social transition’ practices,” according to the White House.


The order will also reinstate the 1776 Commission that Trump created during his first term in office to promote patriotic education and counter lessons that he says divide Americans on race and slavery.'
 
Trump to fight anti-Semitism in schools.

"The president’s coming executive order to combat antisemitism would take on the rise in antisemitic incidents on campuses following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.

The order would charge the Justice Department and attorney general with taking “immediate action” to prosecute antisemitic crimes like vandalism and intimidation as well as investigate “anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.” Additionally, the White House is promising to deport and revoke the student visas of those deemed sympathetic to Hamas."

 
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