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beachbum1A
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Mexico govt. opens school in LA
Just read this in the news this morning;
Mexican government opens 13 schools for basic education
Daily News Wire Services
Article Last Updated: 01/11/2008 11:01:32 AM PST
The Mexican government is operating 13 centers in Los Angeles County aimed at helping Mexican nationals complete their basic education.
The Mexican government opened its latest Plaza Comunitaria, or Community Plaza, at San Fernando Middle School yesterday.
The 13 centers offer free classes, in person or through video and the Internet, to Mexican nationals living in the United States.
"They are leaving our country without that education," Mario Velazquez, acting consul general at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles.
"We have failed in giving education to those Mexicans. We must try our best to give that education, even if they are abroad."
More than 40 percent of Mexican nationals over age 25 living in the United States had less than a ninth-grade education, according to 2005 data
compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center.
Just do it!
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The Gull
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This is a good news story
...any of the detractors of the Mexican government from the other posts want to comment negatively about this one?
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
...any of the detractors of the Mexican government from the other posts want to comment negatively about this one? |
YES!
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Now, they can open some hospitals and guaranty payments as well. This is a big step in the right direction.
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I consider it a positive step...just wondering what sort of curriculum they will offer. It sounds like adult education...ABC's would be great, but how
to get legal would be better. If the Mexican Government stepped up and helped their citizens become legal in US it would go along way to improving
their lives.
Albert G
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The Gull
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Now, they can open some hospitals and guaranty payments as well. This is a big step in the right direction. |
the proper word is "guarentee".
Can you make it into the US sometime for these classes?
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Phil S
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Gull. Your a smart ass "jerk" for that comment. What drives you about others inability to have correct spelling???????
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Phil S
Gull. Your a smart burro "jerk" for that comment. What drives you about others inability to have correct spelling??????? |
Just trying to be helpful one bad speller at a time.
BTW, the "your" in your posting should read, "you're". It is the contraction of "you are". The use of "others" requires that you make it "other's"
as it is possessive.
Phil, thank you for your interest.
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OK, how about this Gull.........you're a jerk
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The Gull
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I believe you have taken some license with the asking of a question in the first phrase, but without the use of a question mark.
Minor oversight and a style that is often used when trying to add some drama into writing.
Otherwise, good work.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
I believe you have taken some license with the asking of a question in the first phrase, but without the use of a question mark.
Minor oversight and a style that is often used when trying to add some drama into writing.
Otherwise, good work. |
Your perfection is lost on most that could not give a Rats a$$ less
Albert G
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
the proper word is "guarentee".
Can you make it into the US sometime for these classes? |
No need to go anywhere, Gull. That's twice in as many days that you've corrected me. I just consider it home schooling. I get a bit lazy with all
this stuff so, thanks for the corrections.
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We've been doing this for two years now. I helped a local non-profit organization obtain a Mexican gov't grant from IME (Instituto para Mexicanos en
el Exterior or "Institute for Mexicans Abroad) working through the local Consulate. We bring teachers from ISEA (Instituto Sonorense de Educacion
para Adultos or "Sonoran Institute of Adult Education") in SLRC across two days a week to teach basic Primaria and Secundaria classes. Those who
complete the courses get certificates. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with legal or illegal immigration status. As it happens, all the current
students are legal. They are people, mostly older adults, who have been here many years, who had to leave Mexico without the opportunity to complete
basic education. Most would like to obtain a U.S. GED and move on toward citizenship. There are classes and exams for the GED in Spanish. The
problem is that most of these adults lack the very basic math, science, reading etc. to even start in the GED process. This program gives them a step
up to that level playing field.
What's your problem with that?
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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who is this a good story for?
| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
...any of the detractors of the Mexican government from the other posts want to comment negatively about this one? |
So Mexicans have to leave their own country to get the education that their government won't give them? I just hope the Mexican government is paying
for it and not the American tax payers.
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Hey Gull;
You mispelled it too!! Guarantee is the correct spelling (it's not that important)
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Is this about grade 6.
I was always under the impression that at least half of you was halfassed educated with just bad memory and/or retention skills. 
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I Know "were"
Just checking, see if you're on your toes.
[Edited on 1-14-2008 by vandenberg]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
OK, how about this Gull.........you're a jerk |
I have to second this comment.....
CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
OK, how about this Gull.........you're a jerk |
I have to second this comment.....
CaboRon |
How do you know it's not a "jerkess"
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Very interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| Quote: | Originally posted by kimberlee
So Mexicans have to leave their own country to get the education that their government won't give them? I just hope the Mexican government is paying
for it and not the American tax payers. |
In another post, you stated that you are a Mexican living in Mexico.
I do find it interesting that you "just hope the Mexican government is paying for it [educating Mexicans in the US] and not the American tax payers."
Just interesting...
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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