From Harford County Public Schools:
As a service learning project, Team 7A of Aberdeen Middle School created ABC books for students in the English Language Learners (ELL) program at Harford County elementary schools. The books were written by the seventh graders in their language arts classes. Ms. Montague, ELL teacher for numerous schools in the area, gave the books to students who were graduating from the program.
The students below are ELL students from Bakerfield Elementary School.
A noble idea, indeed. Do Mom and Dad have a green card?
Kudos to the AMS students, their teachers, and Mrs. Montague for their efforts with this project. The students pictured were some of the kindest, hard-working children in the BFES 5th grade.
You don’t have the rght to ask if they have green cards or not? These children have the right to an education as so pronounced by the Supreme Court and guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. Do you have a problem with following U.S. law? These children are learning English and assimilating to American culture, in that they also need to know our long history of bigotry, racism and intolerance which you have given a great example. Thanks for your contrbution..
Also they have the right in the Maryland Constitution!
I say we do have the right to ask for a green card as American citizens.
no, you don’t have the right to ask anyone for id, as no one as the right to ask you for id either.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus, 1883
Those are stirring words but times have changed. I fail to see how the sentiments of a poet in a time 130 years ago when much of the country was unsettled, pertains to the current situation where millions are sneaking across the southern border and setting up house without documentation while the Federal Government, like some heavily drugged traffic cop, mumbles “Stop”.
Nice. The commenters here have turned a story about a service project done BY CHILDREN FOR CHILDREN into a venue for their political rhetoric.
Yep, it is sad when the well-being of children and the good works of children is politicized.
These children are doing something nice for other children who are learning English so they can do well in this country. I would think that would be a good thing. But apparently, even those who are doing what “is expected” of them isn’t good enough to satisfy the jaded. I guess this is what happens when you start to drink too much “tea” and believe our laws and Constitution are only for you and no one else.