Illegals’ Damage To Schools Shocks Congressman Bean; Nassau County System Says It’s Constrained By The Feds

Opinion

By Dave Scott, 6-14-24

“Illegal immigrants are wreaking havoc on our K-12 education systems and putting students last,” said Fernandina Beach native and Florida’s 4^th District U.S. Republican Congressman Aaron Bean, explaining how a subcommittee he chairs uncovered a chaotic mess caused by illegals pouring into the country

In a June 5 letter to constituents Congressman Bean, the Chairman of the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee, said: “I can sum up the hearing with one word: shocking! We learned that teachers are teaching in hallways, schools are housing illegal immigrants, resources are being diverted to illegal immigrants, and the safety of students and teachers is being compromised.”

Bean said, “The financial impact is staggering. Educating illegal immigrant children requires substantial resources, altering the learning environment for all students. Overcrowded classrooms, the need for new facilities, and strained student-to-teacher ratios are just some of the challenges.”

He concluded saying: “But that’s not all. Nationwide, it’s estimated that illegal immigration has increased education costs by more than $2 billion a year.” Bean’s letter can be read by clicking here Congressman Aaron Bean [email protected]

So how is Biden’s chaotic border mess impacting schools, students, and tax payers in Nassau County?

It’s hard to tell. The Biden administration hamstrings state and local governments from reporting what’s actually taking place.

According to Nassau County Assistant Superintendent of Schools Mark Durham there may be 200 or so students who require English Language Learner (ELL) teachers in the Nassau County System, and they are mostly Hispanic he says. However, he says it’s hard to even measure that effectively because the system is restricted by law from even asking a student’s status. He estimated that it’s about 1.6% of the student population.

“It’s against the law to even ask their immigration status or deny any child,” he said. “However, they do have to provide evidence they are residents of Nassau County.”

Apparently there are lots of folks in neighboring Duval County who would like to enroll their kids in the highly rated Nassau County system.

Representative Bean related that a teacher recounted having a migrant student in her class who appeared to be in his 20s, while claiming to be 18 on his documentation.

I was personally alerted in December 2021 by both a parent and a teacher of their concerns about a non-English speaking “illegal” who appears to be in his early 20’s and claims he’s 17, was enrolled as a freshman at Fernandina Beach High School. The parent was concerned for her young daughter’s safety (https://www.davescottblog.com/florida-gov-ron-desantis-hitting-back-at-joe-bidens-dumping-of-illegals-into-state-including-nassau-countys-schools/ ).

Because the feds restrict the local boards from asking, it’s unclear how many undocumented illegals are co-mingling with local students in the Nassau County School System and how much it costs taxpayers.

If Ms. Burns does have detailed information she’s not providing it to her School Board. Her opponent for the Superintendent job, School Board member Curtis Gaus, told me: “We don’t get that information shared with us by Burns.”

Locally and nationally Representative Bean has sounded the alert.

“It’s just happening more and more” Bean wrote. “I think it is because everything’s out of control. Enough. Let’s fix this border. Let’s get back to American schools doing what we do best, which is teaching our students math, reading and science.”

Bean said the negative effects of illegal immigration puts a further strain on U.S. schools, which are still reeling from COVID-19 lockdowns and the abrupt shift to remote learning.

He said the results of both crises are seen in standardized test scores, which he calculated to be the worst in about 20 years.

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How Do Illegals Get In The System? According to the Nassau County School District’s website parents need to provide the following “necessary documents” to enroll a child in school:

Child’s birth certificate, health examination certificate by a private physician or the County Health Department (The examination must be reported on a special form provided by the Health Department.)
Certificate of immunization for the communicable diseases of poliomyelitis, mumps, diphtheria, rubeola, rubella, pertussis, tetanus, varicella, and Hepatitis
Proof of residency (e.g., lease agreement, utility bill, etc.)
Child’s Social Security card

Other than proof of residency, where are the illegals getting these other documents? The state and county say they are required. The federal government says they can’t be denied admission regardless. And if they don’t need them, why do Americans and legal immigrants need them? If the system can’t deny illegals a “free and public education,” then it can’t deny that to Americans and legal immigrants either can it? The state and the county appear to be caught in a Catch 22 thanks to the Biden administration. Florida’s state guidelines can be read at techassisresource.pdf

I look forward to learning more this coming Monday, June 17 at Deb Boelkes “We the People” candidate forum from 5- 7 p.m. at Holy Trinity Anglican Church Parish Hall, 1830 Lake Park Drive, Fernandina Beach. Those wanting to attend can contact Ms. Boelkes at 904-310-9602 or [email protected]. I’ll see you there. (Ed. note: This event is for Superintendent of Schools candidates).

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What You See Is What You Get Department: Is it any wonder that the deranged pro-Hamas crazies in Washington D.C, this past week have time to deface statues, harass U.S. Park Rangers, and scream profane inane slogans they can’t explain. Did you hear them or get a glimpse of any of them?

Their faces contorted in anger and hatred are only obscured by their incomprehensible screaming, radicalized fury, dishonesty, and hysteria. Their venomous attitudes incoherently proclaim that those disagreeing with them must be silenced, vilified, punished, and destroyed.

For most of these pathetic slobs their appearances match their dispositions. It’s obvious many of these sad sacks don’t miss many dinner bells. What else do these massively obese and hideous creatures have to do? Where would they go other than an All-You-Can-Eat Golden Corral Buffet”? Who would hire them? Would you invite them to Sunday lunch with mom and pop, to have a beer with you and your pals, or date one of these behemoths who appear to be measured in time zones?

In addition to their unhealthy and disheveled looks they are saddled with severely limited intellects. Based on their idiotic chants these “useful idiots” (Vladimir Lenin’s phrase for U.S. Communist Party sympathizers) have no understanding of the war between Hamas and Israel and the Palestine issue. They behave like simple-minded 13-year-olds as they shout obscenities, spray paint vulgarities on monuments, and throw garbage and bottles at unarmed park rangers.

Like Lenin’s recruited and financed corps of “useful idiots” these foot soldiers of Hamas push their homicidal agenda by fomenting dissension, rioting, recruiting other paid stooges, and propagandizing according to Hamas’s dictates.

Where were the police? Why did these antisemitic crackpots deface a statue of French General Rochambeau, who helped the colonists in their fight for independence? They don’t know. Nothing they do makes sense.

For example, while these mindless thugs were free to vandalize the Washington D.C. monument with spray paint, over in Spokane, Washington, two young teens were arrested for allegedly defacing a “Pride” crosswalk mural painted on a street by leaving scooter skid marks on it. The state says their scooter skid marks could land them years behind bars and are asking $15,000 bond. Skid marks on a roadway? Good grief! None of those intentionally vandalizing D.C. national monuments were arrested or have been charged.

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It’s Worse Than You Think: I’ve watched interviews with the pro-Palestine protestors by FOX news reporters and amateur online reporters. The protestors can’t name which river or which sea they’re chanting about, and they don’t understand the impact of an Islamic government with the full powers of sharia law.

Why isn’t the other mainstream media reporting this? Why aren’t they identifying these people?

One guy came out with an amusing way of educating the crowd; he’s on YouTube (LivingLchaim). He walks through the crowd with a clipboard full of papers telling people that he is gathering signatures for a free-Palestine movement. Everybody in the video jumps at the opportunity. But then he tells them he must explain what that means before they sign his petition.

By supporting Free Palestine you agree to the terms and conditions:

You agree that every Jew, Christian and non-Muslim in the world must be slaughtered.
You endorse making homosexuality punishable by jail or death
You support strict Sharia Law which bans women from showing their knees, hair, playing sports in public, not being able to travel without a man’s permission.
You want a terrorist group that beheads babies and rapes girls to replace the only democracy in the middle east.

Not one of the potential signers knew any of this. They all hurriedly backed away.

The question is why they didn’t know these details?

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Overheard At PJD’s Beer & Wine Garden: “I heard that the first nine fans at the next Oakland A’s home game will play.”

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Is There Somebody Else In There We Can Speak To? In addition to being raised by Puerto Ricans, having experiences as an over-the-road truck driver, lumber yard worker, top of his class law student, civil rights freedom fighter (joining the NAACP at 15), and graduating from an all-black college, Biden was also a student of French history. As one pundit put it: “Don’t trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.”

Many pundits are predicting that Biden’s public stumbling, dementia, corruption, sinking poll numbers, and the turmoil in the Democrat party will force him out and, in fact, he may not even make it to the debates. His imitation of a department store mannequin at the White House Juneteenth celebration drew criticism even from left wing media outlets.

As Florida pundit Jeff Childers wrote in a recent commentary: “Folks are starting to realize that, sooner or later, the Democrats are going to get us all killed with their gain of function science, shrinkflation, proxy warmongering, mandatory medicines, wide-open borders, no-bail policies, and defunding police.”

From what we can all see it is obvious that Biden isn’t calling the shots at the White House. Who is? And why hasn’t Congress acted upon this obviously senile and inept president before he does something catastrophic?

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