Why Is Education So Expensive?

 

1. Hey Vilmar,
   You do not know the half of it!!! There are a substantial number of states where students of ethnic minorities are REQUIRED TO BE TAUGHT IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE AT STATE EXPENSE so as to maintain their cultural heritage. Whether their parents want it or not. A buddy of mine in New Jersey was a active duty US Navy member who immigrated on the “enlistment for citizenship” plan we used to offer to Filipino’s.

   New Jersey required that a Tagalog teacher be provided for his kids so they could keep their culture. He planned not to return to his original home so he asked to be exempted from this but was refused. THat was bad enough but his native cultural language was not Tagalog but another dialect from the smaller islands. New Jersey insisted that because Tagalog was the recognized cultural tongue and that his kids had to be taught in it. He pulled his kids out to a private school.

   Also in New Jersey, the state has to provide educational opportunity to even the most handicapped. One of my old girlfriends’ nephew was a complete invalid (really and truly vegetative with limbs completely locked). The state spent in excess of $100,000 yearly to provide a medical vehicle pickup and nursing care during school hours every week day of the school year. All in the name of “education”.

   These are just a few of the “better” examples I have witnessed.

   Posted by babylonandon       04/07/2005  at  02:08 PM  

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