English Not Allowed

J.J. Jackson* | January 10, 2007

Some times the idiocy is just too much.

Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can’t get on because they speak English.

That’s right, English.

It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.

Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the bus as usual Monday, but after the driver let the kids on, he told them he would not pick them up again. He even said he wouldn’t take them home that afternoon.

Armstrong left work early Tuesday, forced to pick up her kids from Phalen Lake Elementary School.

Her twin girls, 10, and her son, 8, were kicked off their regular school bus. They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.

“I was furious. I was at work and I was just mad.” Armstrong said. “I felt like we were being discriminated because we speak English. Just because they speak English, they can’t ride the school bus. I mean, this is America, right?”

Oh wait … the is more … there always is

The district also discovered the Armstrongs no longer live in the Phalen Lake School boundary because they moved last year.

So even though the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.

Uh, correct me if I am wrong, but if the kids were dropped off to pick up a bus that is already there why would they need “their own ride”? And why is it that the school did not realize until just now that this was a problem?

Got to silence that squeaky wheel and make it the problem rather than idiotic bureaucrats eh?

This sounds like a case of discrimination that the ACLU would LOVE to tackle … if they really cared about things other than establishing Atheism as the state religion and aiding and abetting illegal aliens that is!

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