Is there any school system in any congressional district that can double Its school enrollment 6 months from today? Even if we could suddenly solve the physical and financial problems.-there is a more serious difficulty. When the migrants come to a community. they completely disrupt the whole school system. The kids have different backgrounds. levels of accomplishment textbooks. teachers. and systems. Any teacher will tell you that four or five new students In a class is disruptive. Imagine how disruptive it would be for a school to be doubled next April2 months before graduation. The pathetic migrant children get little or no education. The local children suffer irreparably. Then. when our harvests are over. the migrant family moves on to disrupt another school system for a couple of months. and then on to another. Can you imagine how terrible this Is for teachers. the local students. the migrant students? We simply cheat them of their educationtheir most valuable asset. This. of course. is no fault of the innocent children. This nomadic. migrant. farm labor system is simply unAmerican. We should not glamorize it. we should not enlarge it. we should not perpetuate it. We are not asking for Federal aidwe only ask you to understand our problem.
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Migrant children disrupt the school system and get little or no education.