<font color=orangered>This is always a good controversy. They haven't learned English in 12 years enough to pass an exam. The result of an educational fraud as well as widespread student laziness and pandering to hispanics instead of educating them. </font>(Is my statement provacative enough to sdtart a conversation?) -- The Philadelphia Talk Radio Politics and Opinion Forum

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Date Posted: 09:42:26 05/09/03 Fri
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: pcp01422563pcs.lndsd201.pa.comcast.net / 68.81.153.209
Subject: This is always a good controversy. They haven't learned English in 12 years enough to pass an exam. The result of an educational fraud as well as widespread student laziness and pandering to hispanics instead of educating them. (Is my statement provacative enough to sdtart a conversation?)

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32471
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Students: English-only test unfair
Hundreds of seniors stage protest over state exam
� 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Waving signs and chanting "No FCAT," about 200 students protested Florida's standardized assessment test outside Miami Senior High School, reports WPLG-TV.

The demonstration followed the release earlier this week of students' results on Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT. The annual exam is given to students in third through 10th grade.

The Associated Press reports nearly 14,000 12th-graders still haven't passed the FCAT, which puts their graduation in jeopardy.

About 100 out of 500 seniors from Miami Senior High who took the exam failed, according to the Miami-Dade County School Board.

Many of the protesting students call the test unfair because it is given in English. Roughly 88 percent of the student body are English-as-a-second-language students.

"Imagine here, where we are a Hispanic-based society, a lot of these students out here protesting � they don't know English," Gertter Martin, who failed the FCAT twice, told WPLG-TV.

"I'm scared. My dreams are [over.] I want to be a doctor and because of that I can't do it," said Jessica Duran who also failed the test.

Six of every 10 seniors who have yet to pass the FCAT, which is required for graduation, have the grades to graduate.

The protesters got support from some educators who showed up at the rally.

"How can you tell somebody who's been in school for 12 years, who's met all the requirements and because they haven't passed a test that they can't get their diploma?" said Gus Barrera of Miami-Dade County Schools.

State Rep. Ralph Arza, who is also a Miami High teacher, plans to introduce legislation next week to offer the FCAT in other languages.

Seniors who failed this time around have the option of taking an adult education course and retaking the test again next month.

Those who don't want a diploma can get a general education degree, or GED.

Meanwhile, the protesting students have another score to settle. School officials told the news station that those who did not go to class on time and took part in the rally will likely be suspended.

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[> SurveyGuy, can someone please slap these whiners and wake them up? They are living in the United States, not Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Belize, and on and on. English is the National Language here, or should be. I wonder why Chinese and Japanese students can attend grade school, high school, and college without having the classes in their own language, and still pass ... at the head of their class. No, I don't really wonder. The Asians and Orientals don't make excuses for themselves as a group. -- William, 15:30:34 05/10/03 Sat (cache-dl03.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.39)

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[> Asians and Orientals do the work which must be done and they get results. In the mean time, the Hispanics and Blacks especially in the US have had too many excuses made for them and rely too much on excuses and special privileges and won't make the proper effort but want society to bend to their will. Good luck trying to be a doctor in the USA Who cannot speak or understand English, unless you think you are dealing with only Spanish speaking patients and hospital staff and attending only Spanish lectures, classes, and medical reviews! -- William, 15:32:27 05/10/03 Sat (cache-dl03.proxy.aol.com/205.188.209.39)

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[> William, I totally agree with you, for once! There is a correlation between social ambition and the ability to learn the official language. I forsee the day when South Florida is declared a bilingual zone, and schoolchildren are forced to learn both languages. -- Chris Henry (although feeling a bit guilty because of his limited command of the language in the country where he temporarily resides), 02:27:20 05/11/03 Sun (cache1-2.ruh.isu.net.sa/212.138.47.11)

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