Hispanic students return to schools across AL, although many in North AL officially withdraw (al.com

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Published: Friday, October 07, 2011, 9:14 AM
Updated: Friday, October 07, 2011, 10:27 AM

By Crystal Bonvillian, The Huntsville Times The Huntsville Times

The number of Hispanic students absent from North Alabama public schools has declined this week, but it doesn't mean all of those children have returned to class.

While the number of students absent has dwindled in the week since Alabama's strict new immigration law went into effect, the number of students completely withdrawn by their parents has, in some systems, doubled.

In Albertville, a city hit particularly hard by the new law, the school system has lost about 9 percent of its 1,170 Hispanic students.

"Our number of Hispanics withdrawn is holding at 107," Dr. Frederic Ayer, superintendent of Albertville City Schools, said Wednesday afternoon in an email.

The absenteeism in Albertville peaked at that number late last week. By Wednesday, the number of Hispanic students absent was down to 27.
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more: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/10/hispanic_absentee_rates_drop_i.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. omg

[OhioBlue]

2. the comments on that article are just disgusting.

so much hate and ignorance...

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Oh, sorry ... should have warned you.

Our local conservatives have the idea that they are great humorists too, which is so contrary to the facts as to make their remarks doubly distressing.

[MADem]

4. The crops are rotting in the fields all over Alabama, too--so much for the

"They're takin' our JERBS," whine.