2 Mar 2022 5:37 am
Another bigoted slap in the face, this time to students (mostly Latino) for whom English is a second language:
Virginia Beach school board member says educating children who didn’t grow up speaking English ‘not sustainable’ - The Virginian-Pilot
Several of Victoria Manning’s fellow Virginia Beach School Board members and the superintendent criticized a post she made on social media that decried the cost and necessity of educating children who didn’t grow up speaking English.
Manning said she wrote on Facebook after a presentation during Tuesday’s board meeting about the school division’s growing English as a Second Language program.
“(Virginia Beach) schools has 300 additional ESL students in the past year. Most are from South America,” she wrote. “Our ESL budget has increased over $1 million in two years. Continuing to educate South Americans is not sustainable."
Antipas Harris, who served on a diversity task force for the school division in 2015, said Manning’s focus on funding is an attempt to negate the issue.
“This is not about money. This is about cultural intolerance, and bigotry,” he said.
ON A POSITIVE NOTE:
New Mexico governor signs education bills, raises teacher minimum salaries by $10K
AND:
Book bans have reached levels not seen in decades — but nationwide activism to oppose them is growing, too | PBS NewsHour
So, run on out and GET 'EM ... before they're TOO hot:
Virginia Beach school board member says educating children who didn’t grow up speaking English ‘not sustainable’ - The Virginian-Pilot
Several of Victoria Manning’s fellow Virginia Beach School Board members and the superintendent criticized a post she made on social media that decried the cost and necessity of educating children who didn’t grow up speaking English.
Manning said she wrote on Facebook after a presentation during Tuesday’s board meeting about the school division’s growing English as a Second Language program.
“(Virginia Beach) schools has 300 additional ESL students in the past year. Most are from South America,” she wrote. “Our ESL budget has increased over $1 million in two years. Continuing to educate South Americans is not sustainable."
Antipas Harris, who served on a diversity task force for the school division in 2015, said Manning’s focus on funding is an attempt to negate the issue.
“This is not about money. This is about cultural intolerance, and bigotry,” he said.
ON A POSITIVE NOTE:
New Mexico governor signs education bills, raises teacher minimum salaries by $10K
AND:
Book bans have reached levels not seen in decades — but nationwide activism to oppose them is growing, too | PBS NewsHour
So, run on out and GET 'EM ... before they're TOO hot: