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December 16, 2007
Spanish Class Subverted by Moonbattery
Even language classes now consist of indoctrination in the insidious dogma of moonbattery. This is what goes on in a high school Spanish class near Columbus, Ohio:
The students had a role-play project: assume a Latino identity, build an imaginary life in your home country and develop a workable plan to immigrate to the United States.
Try it legally, Erica Vieyra told her 40 senior Spanish students at Olentangy Liberty High School. Fill out the correct documents, follow the proper steps. And then, after they spent days completing the actual paperwork from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, she took out her red ink pad and stamped a big, fat DENIED across every request.
Students are taught that there's no point following the law, because America never lets anyone immigrate legally.
Now, she told the students, come illegally. Forge your documents, find a way across the border. Then, research real ads and find a place to live in Columbus. Figure out what it would cost, how to get food. Plan how to survive.
The students had to go to real businesses and ask for Spanish-language job applications. They had to visit a bank and ask for new-account documents written in Spanish.
Vieyra promised them that the process — even in make-believe — would frustrate them. But they would gain, she hoped, an understanding of what is one of the most important political and humanitarian issues facing the U.S. government today.
Nigel at This Goes to 11 comments:
Well which one of her kids plays the role of the illegal alien who spread tuberculosis because they evaded legal immigrations channels? Or how many kids get to play the illegal aliens who commit gang rape? Did she send her 40 kids to the local emergency room all at the same time to get treatment for their colds…and walk out without paying?
Here's another role-playing concept: Ms. Vieyra should pretend she's a Spanish teacher, since that's what taxpayers are paying her to be, and save the moonbat demagoguery for after hours.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 16, 2007 9:16 PM
Comments
The recent Iowa GOP debate is recast... As supporting the global warming hoax.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/15/revenge-of-the-schoolmarm/
Posted by: BUUUUURRRRNING HOT at December 17, 2007 1:54 AM
So, immigrating legally takes too much time and effort?
Maybe she can do some role playing on how to acquire a $250,000 retirement fund. Students can work and save for decades, which would be impossible in her view, or they can just go rob an armored car.
Posted by: forest at December 17, 2007 8:08 AM
THIS PROJECT DID NOT PREACH ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
I was one of the many students that did the project, and I know for a fact that I was never persuaded to feel one way or another. All of the opinions I formulated were ones that I came up with on my own. The project was as much about legal immigration as it was illegal immigration.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 18, 2007 7:49 PM
