BAD CITY = BAD SCHOOLS
The Daily Pilot is leading today (Saturday, 12/23) with an article about three schools in the Newport Mesa Unified School District that are failing and which have one year to improve student scores or face sanctions (And a possible takeover by the state?).
If you've been paying attention to the decline of Costa Mesa, you won't be surprised to learn that none of these schools are in the Newport Beach part of the district.
Why is that? Both Newport Beach and Costa Mesa are part of the same school district. Both have school facilities that are about the same. The same teachers work in both parts of the district.
Again, why does Costa Mesa have students who score poorly on tests while Newport Beach has students who score high?
The three schools with failing students are Pomona Elementary School, Wilson Elementary School and TeWinkle Middle School.
So, why are those schools failing?
Can you stand the truth? Are you ready? Here's the answer: For the past two decades so-called city leaders in Costa Mesa have been turning our city into an illegal alien sanctuary city.
Illegal alien sanctuary city means illegal alien sanctuary schools.
But, maybe we have it wrong.
You didn't read the following demographic facts in the Pilot. Wonder why? Might they not offer some scientific clue about the schools? We won't bore you with all the demographic information of these and other schools but could the following demographic information offer a clue?
Pomona is 93.5% Hispanic (435 students) and 2.8% White (13 students).
Wilson is 94.2% Hispanic (581 students) and 2.8% White (17 students).
TeWinkle is 68.2 % Hispanic (781 students) and 26.8% White (307 students).
By comparision, Newport Coast is 1.7% Hispanic (10 students) and 81.5% White (492 students). It's a top performing school.
Draw your own conclusions.
Here's the link to the NMUSD Web site where you can get all the demographics: http://www.nmusd.us/schools/
If the above doesn't make you mad, then consider the following intelligence insulting crap that should go in the column marked "try to find something nice to say even if you have to stretch to do so": The Pilot tells us that the report prepared by those studying the schools says that TeWinkle has "dedicated counselors," and that Wilson has "high after-school participation," and Pomona has "quality parent education."
Do those last fuzzy sentiments make you feel better that your home values are depressed by having school scores that make Costa Mesa look like slum central?
To improve the schools, we need to improve the city. There's no other way to do it.
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