Another anonymous correspondent sent me this and has given me permission to publish it:
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This article was posted on the El Paso Times web site today.
The idea of the local school districts asking for more money and a lowering of standards is both humorous and sad.
How do they ask for those things with a straight face? Is this so they will have more money to waste on fraudulent deals and/or so that they will not have to cheat on tests by “disappearing” students now that they know they can no longer get away with that?
Bottom line: more money would be spent to hopefully achieve lower standards.
Whatever happened to the concept of people working to achieve higher standards rather than lowering the standards?
As wise man once told me, “once you abandon your principles, everything else is easy”.
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One of the problems is the failure to distinguish citizenship from residency. A resident of the El Paso Independent School District is reasonably entitled to school in the district whether a citizen or not. An American citizen living outside the district should only attend schools in the district if the parents are paying tuition. Same thing for New Mexico. One problem is that school administrators like to collect the per diem paid by the state for each student. Virtually every high school campus has cars with Mexican and New Mexican plates on the lot or on nearby streets. A combined effort by the schools, the sheriff and the tax assessor collector on Monday mornings could reduce the number of people who are taking space which rightfully belongs to local students. This is not about being neighborly; it is about being prudent.
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