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"Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> "Pubkeybreaker" <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> Ted wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 16, 8:45?pm, "f. barnes" <fre...@centurytel.net> wrote:
>>>>> > On Feb 16, 4:49?pm, Stuart Jackson <bjackson...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>> > > Beaners parents say English test is, "unfair,'' "anti-
>>>>> > > immigrant'' (pooooooooor pooooooooooor 
>>>>> > > Mexicans):http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/790858,CST-NWS-isat13web.article
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>>>>> > Wetback Parents Threaten School Boycott Due To English-only Exam
>>>>> > Options
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>>>> Allow me to inject an opinion over and above the racial hatred in the
>>>> original post.
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>>>> It is indeed unfair to insist that *recent*  immigrants be forced to
>>>> take a test in English.
>>>> They have not had enough time to learn it.
>>>>
>>>> The solution is obvious:  Do away with bi-lingual education.   For
>>>> newly arrived
>>>> immigrants who do not know English, sit them down in a classroom and
>>>> teach them
>>>> ONLY English.   8 hours a day.  Do not allow them to study other
>>>> subjects in school until they
>>>> have sufficient mastery of English.
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>>>> **************
>>>> An excellent idea!  The only problem I see is that it is not 
>>>> politically correct.  Anything short of having K-12 entirely in spanish 
>>>> is viewed as discriminatory.  Anyone who wants english as a national 
>>>> language will be declared a racist.  That happens to me, in spite of 15 
>>>> years of volunteer work assisting in english literacy for spanish 
>>>> speakers.
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>>> I grew up in South Bend, Indiana.  I knew dozens of old Europeans who 
>>> had been in this country for years, and spoke no English at all.  They 
>>> communicated only with each other and offspring who grew up learning 
>>> English.  No one pissed and whined about it.
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>>> Mexicans have been in Arizona far longer than gringos presently here. 
>>> Why don't all gringos here learn to speak Spanish?
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>> Because there are far more people speaking english in the US than 
>> spanish.
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> For how long?
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Agreed...for how long?  It is going to require immediate attention to avoid 
going bilingual in K-12.
I fear that political correctness will prevail.