Somethin's been buggin' me all day

So I did my volunteering today. You know the ESOL thing. So I was talking to the teacher whose class I volunteer in and I was curious about how the students did on their placement tests to see if they go to the next "grade" next year. So it's an oral test and they don't really concentrate on writing until the next year. Now at this point she goes onto say how useless it is to teach them to write, because "when are these people ever going to get a job where they have to write anything". Now I'm trying to keep some kind of agreeable face because that's just insane.

This teacher is one of those old hippies that's supposed to be into this sort of thing. And I know she is because every time I walked into class she had something posted about supporting the Kennedy-McCain bill. And when we had the raid she went on and on with the whole 'isn't it the biggest tragedy' and all that crap. But she obviously has a lousy view of these people. I mean some of the people in class aren't old enough to drink and she already thinks that they'll never have a job where they have to write even a paragraph. What a horrible view to have of any person. I don't think like that.

I've gone to that class for several months now and watched these people "teach" them in a half-assed way. I thought they were inept but apparently they just don't give a shit. I mean in theory they're outraged about their plight. But where their portion of helping these people, and I mean real help, is concerned they don't take it seriously at all. And then to have that attitude I couldn't believe it. I've gone out of my way to help where they're not, and I'm against illegal aliens. I always go out of my way to explain things to them and the gist of what this woman wants to do is make macaroni pictures. She actually said that when offered the job of the next level class she didn't want it because doing having to concentrated on writing that much wouldn't be "fun".

And I'm just standing there thinking 'Why are you saying this to me? What's wrong with you? You're a total asshole.' What is it with this place that everyone must tell me everything that they are doing wrong? "I'm an illegal alien"; "I'm a shitty teacher."; "I'm on probation." SHUT UP! Find a priest for chrissakes. I already think you people suck, don't confirm it. Idiots.

Honestly, the people who feel really bad for the illegals have no idea about them and they don't want to know. They have some image of the downtrodden that they like to keep in their heads instead of looking at the person right in front of them. Most of the people I've dealt with came to this country with the promise of a better life, but what they left behind wasn't that bad. The thing is the promise of a better life is all freakin' bogus. So they might have been just as well back home. Yeah they'll have some money when and if they go back, but they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. If they were all sitting in huts and came to this country to see what running water was like then it'd make sense. But these are educated people half the time, people just like you and me from somewhere else. They come from cities and learned computers where they came from. It's not this image that people have. The image they're hanging on to not only belittles these people but also allows their trangressions based on the idea that they're so desperate that they have to break our laws. So in a way, these people who support the illegal alien cause really think of them as less than themselves. That's really messed up.