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Originally Posted by Miss Mango
I dont understand how many children who are in the US illegally get into our schools anyway. Im not talking about the children who are born here and are citizens but their parents are illegal immigrants, I mean the children who are ALSO here illegally. Dont you need a birth certificate to get into school? Are they forging birth certificates?
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I was going to stay out of this thread...
My dad used to teach at an elementary school in which the student body was almost exclusively comprised of immigrant children. Some were legal, some were refugees from places like Darfur and the Balkans, and some were illegal.
All the kids at his school needed was proof of immunization, which you can get at a local clinic. It is illegal for him to ask the kids if their parents are legal or not. The majority of the kids in his school got free lunch, and for many kids, it was their only meal of the day unless they also got free breakfast.
If the school didn't feed those kids, they didn't eat. A hungry kid is a disruptive, hell raising kid. A hungry kid has no control whether his parent makes enough money to adequately care for him. A hungry kid has little chance of learning if the growl in his tummy is louder than his teacher's voice. Why would anyone want to deny that hungry kid a meal?