BY RICHARD HOBBS, 11/13/2011
CULTURAL DRIVEN POLICY MAKING: This theory that: educational policy making is culturally drive, as opposed tp developing policy based on the needs of the general population.
     Is our educational system misguided in trying to create  education policy based on the needs of a select group of the population as opposed to developing policy based on the needs of the entire population, known as consensus policy making: Do we cheat many, when we try to appease a few? For example: In California,
after the Vietnam war, California experienced  a great influx of southeast Asian immigrants from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. California was required to revamp many of her governmental agencies, especially
education, in an effort to meet the needs of these new immigrants, each with their own diverse culture. I propose that this distracts from and cheats our resident population. This issue is not intended to be a comment on racism or bigotry.
      I believe that even though our country is founded on the premise: "All are welcome, and all are entitled."
This premis is based on the outdated United State's immigration policy: "Give us your poor, downtrodden,
disenfranchised and persecuted."
       Is it not time to re-examine our policy of trying to save the world, especially when this policy negatively impacts her naturalized citizens? Your non-racist comments are invited.