Illegal immigration, poor ISTEP scores are related
With the release of the latest ISTEP scores the mayor’s annual complaining about the results begins anew. For the mayor to say he can’t understand why families would use ISTEP scores to make a decision where to move is a bit disingenuous. The professional and affluent don’t move to Goshen any longer.
For years the city has bent over backwards to bring more manufacturing to the area. Along with the jobs came the corporate greed and the illegal migrants who came here for the money. The city government could have been more proactive but decided to turn a blind eye to the illegal problem. They said it was a federal problem. The unemployed American citizens live with the problem every day. The city has become complicit with these law breakers, those who are here working illegally and the businesses that employ them.
Then there’s the low-cost housing that’s cropped up all over this town over the past couple of decades, which attracts many of the illegal migrants. You remember the line “if you build it, they (he) will come,” well, the developers and organizations like LaCasa built it and they did come. And the city continues to give land and property to LaCasa to develop.
The mayor thinks the ISTEP scores are an unfair representation of the quality of the education received in the Goshen school systems and I would tend to agree, but perception is reality. When you have 28.9 percent of the students with limited English language skills, what do you expect? The mayor wanted a city of diversity and he got it. He wants to celebrate diversity instead of unity. I guess it won’t be long until that 47.3 percent minority school enrollment tops 50 percent and then he will have to deal with a majority problem.
— Bob Schrameyer
Goshen
_________________ Bob Schrameyer
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