Sketchy Idea, Guys
Anyone else think it's (shall we say, unfortunate) that LA Public Schools, which have an absentee rate approaching 50%, seem to be at the center of this whole illegal immigration rights walkout phenomenon? Saturday marching -- fine. Have it at it. But this walking out during school, and out of schools that can barely keep their students to begin with, isn't so cool.
But that's just me. I'm a gringo.
But that's just me. I'm a gringo.
2 Comments:
But you're a gringo that "gets it."
1) They put all the schools on lockdown as of Tuesday.
2) I don't think that's a fair or proper comparison to make. The general attendance rate of those schools has nothing to do with students protesting or marching for something they believe in.
I guess your implication is that these schools have bad attendance in the first place because of the high illegal immigrant population. In California only about 3% of our total population is illegal. Let's go so far as to say that goes up to 15% in LA schools. You're still talking about 35% of school absentees being red-blooded Americans.
There are a lot of reasons for poor performance in LA Unified, and one of them might surely be our currently busted immigration system. Maybe that's the correlation you should be drawing. But it seems dubious to undercut a protest over a contentious issue for that reason.
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