Immigrants flee U.S. schools for bad habits learned

When we think of immigrants in this nation, thoughts too often descend to what we believe they take instead of the truth about what they bring and more.

In a surprising story, a group of immigrant parents have purposely isolated their children from American children because of the bad habits the U.S. kids teach. And those habits and attitudes have everything to do with why this nation is in so much economic trouble.

Here is how The NYTIMES described it:


MINNEAPOLIS — Fartun Warsame, a Somali immigrant, thought she was being a good mother when she transferred her five boys to a top elementary school in an affluent Minneapolis suburb. Besides its academic advantages, the school was close to her job as an ultrasound technician, so if the teachers called, she could get there right away.

“Immediately they changed,” Ms. Warsame said of her sons. “They wanted to wear shorts. They’d say, ‘Buy me this.’ I said, ‘Where did you guys get this idea you can control me?’ ”

Her sons informed her that this was the way things were in America. But not in this Somali mother’s house. She soon moved them back to the city, to the International Elementary School, a charter school of about 560 pupils in downtown Minneapolis founded by leaders of the city’s large East African community.

The extra commuting time was worth the return to the old order: five well-behaved sons, and one all-powerful mother.


America, you're not as beautiful as you believe. Shape up and start teaching your children right in the home before you send them to school.