Thursday, February 8, 2007

CM PRESS # 77




THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND THE
FAILING PLAN FOR FAILING SCHOOLS


So, what's the big plan to keep the state from taking over Wilson Elementary (94.2% Hispanic and 2.8% White), Pomona Elementary (93.5% Hispanic and 2.8% White)
and TeWinkle Middle School (68% Hispanic and 26.8% White)?

Apparently, the major points of the plan are to extend instruction time and to teach more English to the children of Mexico who are in these schools.

The plan won't work.

Get ready for the state to take over these schools which will be another embarrassment for Costa Mesa as the world learns that the libs in this city have turned our once nice coastal community into a Third World dump and a sanctuary for illegal aliens.

And, these three schools are just the tip of the iceberg. There are more failing schools right behind these that will soon be in danger of being taken over. You'll be reading about these in the coming months. The problems of the Westside are spreading city wide.

Frankly, we wouldn't be surprised if Newport Beach parents try to take their schools out of the NMUSD. Costa Mesa schools are lowering the reputation of Newport Beach schools. Newport may tell us to go link up with Santa Ana.

As we've written many times before, the NMUSD has its hands tied in trying to make Costa Mesa's schools better. NMUSD has to work with the students that the city supplies. And, Costa Mesa is supplying thousands of non-English speaking children of illegal aliens.

Our bad schools are also keeping upwardly mobile people from wanting to move here. This creates a vacuum that is filled by more illegal aliens.

It's a downward spiral that has to be reversed. And, the way to reverse it is to upscale our city and make it a desirable location for upwardly mobile families once more.

We can do that by using our greatest natural resource: our closeness to the ocean.

Maybe we should dump Linda Dixon's "City of the Arts" slogan for this city and return to the old "Hub of the Harbor," as starters.
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