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> How can you confidently say that? All of the studies on poor/insufficient teacher pay, the funneling of money away from public K-12 schools, the personal experiences of many around me, some from California public schools, broken incentives from pushes for standardized testing from administrations the past two decades. The list goes on. And now you're going to say that immigration is anything significant compared to…
> The list goes on Every item you listed applies to states doing a lot better on the education front than California. > All the evidence I have been asking for and you have not given? What evidence will convince you that a high proportion of non-English speakers likely has a serious influence on educational outcomes for a school? Would a strong negative correlation between number of non-English speakers at a school a…
Somewhat, once also adjusted for funding per student, pay of teachers, all those other factors.
> And then once you have been convinced what will convince you that the most just and moral approach is strict border security?
There's a difference between strict and inhumane border security. You act as if we have to pick one. I don't think you'd ever convince me on that front because I can picture so many better options to this policy. There is no obligation or moral requirement that we cause this harm due to lack of any other options.