OUR taxpayer dollars are paying for illegal alien children to go to school on OUR DIME meanwhile there are American children who cant read at a 3rd grade level.
What would you propose to do about that? I mean first of all those "illegal aliens children" are probably CITIZENS. Of course taxpayers should pay to educate those children, they are future members of our society, future tax payers, future members of our military. The dollars spent are an investment. And government spending on education has consistently provided the best return on investment, like the VA education benefits after WWII.
Your first problem is attempting to link the fact that many American children can't read at a 3rd grade level with all those ESL students. They are not related. In fact, from my experience, anyone actually engaged with the public education system respects those illegal alien's and how they raise their children.
I mean maybe it is location. But I live just northwest of Charlotte. A big agricultural area, logging. Huge immigrant population and no doubt, many are illegal, or "without papers". But they work hard, often multiple jobs. But when I say "they", I mean the men. If they have been successful enough to move their wife here, almost certainly illegal, and to have children here, certainly citizens, well you can almost bet, that woman is staying home with the kids.
And that brings us to those public schools. I have a bit of experience with that, at every level, the parent perspective most of all, but my education is proudly "public", although I did finish off in a private setting. But those "illegal aliens children", they don't hold the class back, they perform. And you know where English is a second language? The PTO meeting. Those "illegal" parents, they are involved.
At the elementary level, field trips, it is those parents that are going along. The absolute highest percentage of stay at home mothers is within the Hispanic community. That means something, especially to me because that is what I did. And it is quite satisfying now, to see my oldest son repeating the same path. His brother soon to follow.
But I have lived here quietly almost my entire life. I call the local public high school the doctor laboratory. It flat turns them out. The doctors know it, whole neighborhoods, nothing but two doctor households, surgeons, specialists. They send their kids to this public high school. Sometimes, driving Bentleys. But yes, you can lay a solid foundation for college here, but the competition is tight.
I have seen it. Immigrant, probably legal, but a refugee, Cambodia, Vietnam. Lots of kids. Now, a couple doctors, medical doctors, at Wake Forest Baptist and Caramount. But that high school turns out engineers at an impressive rate. My son works with MIT, Oxford, and at both places he has contacts that went to that tiny ass two A High School.
What no one seems to understand, American exceptionalism is based on diversity. It really is. You can't make America great again by attacking diversity, it just won't work.