A massive influx in non-English speaking students in Pennsylvania is overwhelming school districts across the state, and the logistical strain on administrators could be leaving other students behind.
The number of English Language Learners (ELL) in school districts in Pennsylvania has surged nearly 40% since 2021, forcing public schools to shell out more cash to try and meet the needs of these students, according to documents obtained via records requests and open-source information reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The surge for many schools began in the 2021-2022 academic school year, coinciding with the onset of the Biden-Harris administration and the subsequent border crisis...
Across the state, there were a total of 71,766 ELL students — those requiring specialized education in learning English as a second language — during the 2020-2021 school year, according to data published by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. This number jumped to 99,889 in the 2023-2024 school year, marking a nearly 40% rise in just three years.
The numbers only tell part of the story. It's not just that there are nearly 100,000 ELL students, it's that they speak dozens of different languages. It's one thing to have 100,000 Spanish-speaking kids you have to teach English, it's an utterly unsolvable problem to have some speaking Spanish, some Creole French, some Arabic ...
Where are you going to get the teachers for those kids? There is no training pipeline in existence that is prepared to handle an influx like that and the example is only for Pennsylvania. The same thing is happening all over the country.
The Democrats opened the floodgates so they could import voters. Once the illegals got in, there would be no appetite for deportations on the scale required to get rid of them all. In time, they will be legalized and, so the thinking goes, the Democrats will never lose another election. At no point in time did they think any of this through. The schools are being overwhelmed, drowning in illegals' kids they cannot teach, cannot understand and cannot house.
It was never about the people, it was always about the numbers.
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