03-28-2015, 09:23 PM
silvarios wrote:
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glad to hear she is OK. Those Somalis... I just watched Captain Phillips recently. wow...
Uh, what now?
My only reason in pointing out their ethnicity was that likely all of the Somali residents in our community of that age were not born here and also likely have close family ties in Somalia that they could call.
The Somali immigrants we have are harassed and not made welcome by our very white population. The school district has done very little to aid in their assimilation into the classroom and last week there was a peaceful protest outside a local high school because of the harassment they suffer. I'm glad the parents were protesting because in all my years of going to parent-teacher conferences, sometimes six a year between my two kids, I never once saw a Somali parent.
My daughter, who was in special education (math IQ: 55), had a special education math class in high school that was majority Somali because they lacked the fundamental skills, not the brains. The class was a mess due to the vastly different learning rates. I eventually pulled her from the class because she complained she couldn't learn anything. My daughter was mostly well served, the Somali students were not.