| Bensenville’s Rev. Luis F. Reyes is a board member of Bensenville School District. Bensenville’s Rev. Luis F. Reyes’s biography on the Bensenville school board’s web site states, “he is working toward the empowerment of minorities in leadership roles.” Sounds a little bit like Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rev. Reyes’ daughter had a bad experience when she went to school in Bensenville. Rev. Reyes’ daughter couldn’t understand anything because it was in English. “Rev. Reyes, maybe you should have taught your daughter English before she enrolled in a Bensenville school. This is America. That is if you can speak English yourself”.
I for one, do not want to waste Bensenville taxpayer money teaching illegal alien children living in Bensenville how to speak English. This is something that should have been taught at home. If the Bensenville parents cannot speak English, I guess that will not happen. Let the Bensenville taxpayers pay to teach English. That is the attitude of Bensenville Rev. Reyes and the Bensenville School Board.Here is a except from an article from WBEZ 91.5, Chicago Public Radio, entitled Shifting Demographics Change Suburban Schools, Produced by Linda Lutton on Tuesday, December 15, 2009. Here is a link to the full text: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=38800
“Nearly a quarter of districts in DuPage County are now majority minority, and Bensenville is one of them.
Bilingual classrooms at Tioga Elementary didn’t exist six years ago. Now there’s a whole floor of them. There are bilingual teachers, bilingual materials, and bilingual psychologists. There’s all-day kindergarten and Saturday school.
If you ask Luis Reyes, he’ll tell you Bensenville has come a long way since he enrolled his daughter here seven years ago. It was her first experience in an English-only classroom.
REYES: The first week my daughter came home crying because she could not understand anything.
Reyes’ daughter had been in a bilingual magnet school in Chicago. He says her Bensenville teacher was not sympathetic to her situation.
REYES: At one point I lost my temper, and I remember saying, ‘We are paying your salary to educate our children, not to judge us. Not to point out my daughter because she is not with the rest of the kids.’
Today, Reyes is one of two Latino members on Bensenville’s school board.
At some point, he says he’d like to bring up issues Bensenville doesn’t seem ready to grapple with just yet. He wants to see more minority authors in kids’ backpacks, and he wants to hear some different songs at the music concerts—something that reflects the identity kids bring to school.
REYES: I think eventually the district will move in that direction, not because we want to, because we have to.
That may be the new reality for many suburban districts.” |
 "bensenville-06/12/1986 - A Marine military policeman searches an illegal alien that was found on a train. Marine military police, Santa Fe Railroad Police and Federal Border Patrol agents work together to apprehend aliens entering the US through the camp.")
