viva la Mejico y frijolerans

I, for one, understand that there are people out there that ruin it for the rest of society. For examply you are all talking about the Mexicans and how much trouble they cause and how poor and ignorant they are, yet as an American I am embarrassed to say that people like you is what I have to call fellow citizens of my country. I am sorry that you don’t know how to look past appearances and sterotypes and appreciate and try to learn from a different culture, I guess growing up in a white hick town justifies our ignorance and our constant feelings of superiority.

Please find a better way to spend your time, I only happened to bump into this by mistake but rest assure I won’t be back. I like to do productive things with my time and not desctructive hobbies.

I have this white friend here at work that somewhat grew up in my area of LA, he grew up in Wilmington (For one semester I went to Stephen White, a Jr High there, but I got kicked out for fighting – someone was picking on my little cousin). And for those that don’t know, Wilmington, especially now, is predominantly (95%) a Mexican area. It has more than its fair share of poverty and has alot of gang violance. So this guy is very familiar and comfortable around Mexicans, his wife is Mexican too.

Anyway, he lives in Scripps Ranch, an upity area here in San Diego. He was telling me that there were also people (primarily Mexicans) from other districts that would attend Scripps Ranch, and he said that they tended to cause alot of problems, and are overall still part of the ‘ghetto’ culture that is typical of areas with high gang violence (The shitty thing about this is if this guy had not known me personally, and overall been confident that I wouldn’t mistake his statement for racism, he would have never been comfortable to be totally honest with me).

This was the first time I had ever heard of this system, of taking people from overall poor districts and having them attend schools in very nice areas. I never saw this in Compton/LA before.

Please, educate me, how is this implemented? What percentage of the High School represents students from other areas? Does this involve all of San Diego county? How long has this been going on?

More importantly, how do they pick what kids get to go to these upity schools? Do they base it on income of the parents? Do they base it on grades? Is it a mixture of the two? Any references would be greatly appreciated…

Crystal, if you’re still reading this, I’d be interested to hear your ‘generalities’ of the students involved. How do they act? Do they assimulate? What percentage of them would you say ’cause’ trouble? What perception of them do the’native’ students have, positive or negative? Is it worse, or better, than before this program started?

Please, be honest with me, I am thick skinned and appreciate blunt honesty much more than political correctness (you can email me privately if you wish).

Whether this is a good or bad idea depends greatly on how it is implemented, and I’d be very interested to see how this is playing out.

Don’t you worry though. I’m teaching them all how to be civilized. If you’d ever like to come visit just you let me know. Beso.