Massachusetts public school enrollment has long been stagnant, with international arrivals balancing out a low birth rate and high numbers of residents moving out of state.
Who benefits when public schools are jammed with undocumented migrants?
The drop in the number of students means less funding for the districts. State aid formulas provide every district with at least $150 per student, but some districts receive more than $17,000 per child on average because they serve a high number of children who require additional resources for being low-income and English learners, and do not have as much local revenue. Any cost savings from the reduced number of students tends to be far less than the amount of lost funding for those districts.
(i.e., the government workers are able to turn a profit on the migrants)
My question to ChatGPT:
Here’s a Boston Globe article that says “Massachusetts public school enrollment has long been stagnant, with international arrivals balancing out a low birth rate and high numbers of residents moving out of state.” Is this an example of native-born Americans being replaced by immigrants? https://archive.is/zbSbM
Answer:
That’s a thoughtful question. The short answer is: no, the Boston Globe article’s statement alone does not support the claim that native-born Americans are being “replaced” by immigrants. But it does reflect important demographic dynamics worth unpacking. Let’s go through what the article says, what it doesn’t, and how to interpret it.
What about Grok?
No, the quote from the Boston Globe article does not describe an example of native-born Americans being “replaced” by immigrants. Instead, it highlights a demographic balancing act in Massachusetts public school enrollment
The Great Replacement conspiracy theory remains #Scientifically proven false.
Related, a DHS.gov story about a 13-year-old detained after school:
On October 9, 2025, the Everett[, MA] Police Department arrested a 13-year-old alien from Brazil on dangerous weapons charges for allegedly possessing a firearm and a 5-7-inch knife.
The teen is mentioned 11 prior police complaints filed by Everett PD for a laundry list of criminal behavior, including ‘flash mob’ style shoplifting, consuming alcohol underage, breaking and entering, vandalism, theft, fighting and more.
The same student is featured as mostly peaceful by CNN… “Her 13-year-old son was arrested, then taken by ICE to a detention facility”:
“They didn’t give me any information,” said [Josiele] Berto[, speaking in Portuguese], who is from Brazil and along with her family have had a pending asylum application since arriving in the United States in 2021. “I asked where [Arthur Berto] was being taken, and they said they weren’t allowed to say.”
Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria said in a news conference a teenage boy – whom he declined to name because he is a juvenile – was arrested last week after Everett Police received a “credible tip” accusing him of making “a violent threat against another boy within our public school.”
Here’s the mischievous tyke who won’t be attending Maskachusetts public schools at least for the next few days:
In Charlotte, NC (no I don’t live there, God no) several high schools had walkouts to protest ICE’s “Charlotte’s Web” raids (some ICE manager did his/her/xhir 4th grade reading assignment like a good boy/girl/unknown). My take? Give the students the same reply my bosses did when I threatened to walk out–“Don’t let the door hit you in the backside.” Expel them, make their parents pay for private reform schools to house the little delinquents. Then convert the schools to immigrant detention centers and jails. That would take very little retrofitting to public schools.
https://www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/hundreds-students-across-charlotte-protest-border-patrol-with-school-walkouts/
By the way, apparently many Wuvid-19 Exodus people are moving back to Boston and other East Coast urban centers for some reason. Maybe housing prices will stabilize in the remaining livable places now.
Phil, I really enjoyed this post!
I have a couple of pieces of Wisdom for your folks in the U.S., based on our learnings here in the UK (and also Portugal, your new Homeland). You may know that we have outlawed gun and knife violence here, and so our New Citizens don’t perpetrate these heinous crimes on our existing citizens. While some folks have accused our New and Noble Pakistani Citizens of harboring ill-will towards our young girls, we have come to understand that their Girl Rape Gangs are culturally enriching to our country (so incredibly uplifting for our young girls). At least they aren’t shooting and knifing people! While I don’t want to sound like a know-it-all, please do think about the types of people you have welcomed into your county. I hope this helps you and yours as you think about the blessed New Citizens from Brazilian criminal gangs that were welcomed into your country. And, many Happy Thanksgivings to you all from the Wonderful UK!
Thank you, Keir, and on behalf of all Native Americans I’d like to thank the English people for the wonderful things that English immigration to North America did for the native-born residents. Instead of merely trading with Native Americans, by establishing residency the English were able to demonstrate proper environmental stewardship.
Phil, I’m not exactly clear on the meaning of your “environmental” comment, but in any case allahu akbar to you and yours during this special week of thanks and Enrichment!
a corollary of The Peter Principle in action : the schools are obedient to the needs of the employees rather than the publc interest they are supposed to serve.
it’s hard to get a man to see he’s wrong when his paycheck depends otherwise. [attribution?]
My memory said “Upton Sinclair,” which seems to be supported: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
> dangerous weapons charges for allegedly possessing a firearm and a 5-7-inch knife.
My pet hate: that “allegedly”. It’s redundant with the “charged”
Matty: Would you prefer “arrested a 13-year-old MOSTLY PEACEFUL alien from Brazil on POTENTIALLY dangerous weapons charges for ALLEGEDLY possessing a firearm and aN APPROXIMATELY 5-7-inch knife”?
I’m sure Phil and his readers probably already know about the DV Lottery. However, just in case they don’t, I thought would share something I learned today from an immigrant bragging about winning the lottery and moving to Ohio.
I’m fairly ignorant about immigration policy in the U.S., since I have so little time after working tirelessly to pay taxes to support them. The DV Lottery, or “Diversity Immigrant Visa Program”, combs the world looking for missed opportunities in recruiting alleged criminals from underrepresented countries–to get an extra 50,000 individuals per year ICE will have to eject–DEI in/DEI out. Seems like sound government policy to me! I hope they are allowed to bring in all their dependents, first and second degree.
I knew a couple of DV lottery winners in the Boston area. Winners are also able to bring spouses and children (and then cousins, parents, etc. via family reunification). So if 50,000 individuals win per year that’s more like 200,000 immediate immigrants and then another 500,000 in future years.
Both of the DV lottery-winning families I knew were from countries where being divorced is a low-status label for a woman. Once in Maskachusetts, however, the adult females in the above families discovered that being divorced is high-status (independence/feminism/etc.). The women quickly sued the men and the result was that two lottery wins resulted in FOUR households in the Boston suburbs that were entitled to taxpayer-funded housing, Medicaid (“MassHealth”), SNAP/EBT, and Obamaphone. None of this is “welfare”, of course, but only “means-tested” pricing.