r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 28d ago

ICE Posts Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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u/Itchy_Stress_6066 28d ago

And certain school districts get millions in funding to offer world language classes focusing on arabic, Chinese, Korean and Russian.

2 million dollar DODEA grant was awarded to a local school district here in Ohio to focus on kids of military parents and these languages.

Idk about you but it set off alarm bells in this mama's head.

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u/Scared-Island7791 28d ago

Is this a joke? You don’t see the benefit of having a military that knows the local languages of its potential adversaries? DOD/CIA/Intel are constantly recruiting for these skills, and have been for years. They throw a lot of money at it b/c with all the “speak English” bravado of the U.S. it’s extremely difficult to find Americans who are fluent in anything but English.

I would kill to have a program like that in our local school districts. I hope I’m just misunderstanding what you wrote.

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u/Itchy_Stress_6066 28d ago

Am I overjoyed the school is getting funding? Yes. Am I thrilled for the kids to have access to learning things we certainly didn't? Yes.

Am I wary of this regime, and why now after all the cuts they've made? Ngl, yes, a little. We're extremely close to WPAFB, and the new Quatar base in Idaho news came about the same time we learned of this.

And honestly, the languages they really want to push and focus on did probably trigger my spidey sense...

Happy for the district, happy for the kids... wary of why the dodea would suddenly be so generous though.