Two Illegals Charged With Raping 14-Y-O Girl At Rockville High School. Here’s How The Superintendent Responded.
Last Thursday, two students suspected of being illegal immigrants were charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom at Rockville High School in Maryland.
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Smith defended the actions of the school district by underscoring that they are not actually allowed to ask for information about students’ immigration status, and then insisted it is “entirely inappropriate” to question the education system’s policy of providing taxpayer-funded education to those illegally in the country and about whom they know virtually nothing:
We do not know what anyone’s immigration status is in the school system because the law says we don’t collect that and we don’t. But of those 25,000 [students who speak another language as their first home language], some are here with different kinds of documentation and some have none. And it is wholly and entirely inappropriate for any of us, anytime, anywhere to say that we are going to deprive a 6-year-old, an 8-year-old, a 12-year-old, a 14-year-old, a 15- and 18-year-old of an education because a horrible incident happened last Thursday in one of our schools. …
We do our business by the rule of law in this country and that is what the law says. It gives us pretty explicit information about who we should serve and we want to serve them because we know that it would not be good for any child, no matter any circumstance or characteristic, to go without an education in this society and in this community. So it’s very, very important that we help all students become productive members of society and it is the requirement. Additionally, Maryland has compulsory attendance laws from age 5 to 17 this year and next year that will go to 18.