"The reduction, Su said, was because more and more recent immigrants don't want to be in these programs. Specifically, they're scared of being publicly identified as immigrants in Donald Trump's America. "A lot of our students, a lot of our families are not choosing to go into the newcomer programs," she said. "For a lot of reasons. A lot of our families are scared.""
"It is hard to overstate how badly this went over with the assembled crowd. In your humble narrator's own personal life, the moment rekindled distant memories of the time that neighborhood mortician Ed Newberry had the brilliant idea of creating beer ice cream and offering it to everyone on the block. It tasted so awful that even Suzy Q, Ed's dobermann pinscher, wouldn't eat it. So it was a bit like that, but without snacks."
Superintendent Maria Su attributed a drop in newcomer pathway enrollment to recent immigrant families avoiding identification as immigrants amid Donald Trump's America. Su told a large crowd that many families were scared to enter the programs. The audience reacted angrily, producing a strong negative response. Veteran district employees dispute the fear explanation and allege that district decisions have partly manufactured the enrollment decline. Mission Local obtained written communiques related to the situation, indicating ongoing investigation and contention over the causes of reduced newcomer program participation.
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