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"Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> "Wayne" <mygarbagecan@verizon.net> wrote in message 
> news:QUCuj.14947$k_4.12380@trnddc04...
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>> "Pubkeybreaker" <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> wrote in message 
>> news:6164fac6-b716-4042-aa41-5a7bc9132f31@62g2000hsn.googlegroups.com.
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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:
>>> >
>>> > > Beaners parents say English test is, "unfair,'' "anti-
>>> > > immigrant'' (pooooooooor pooooooooooor 
>>> > > Mexicans):http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/790858,CST-NWS-i
>>> > > sat13web.article 
>>> >
>>> > 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> **************
>> 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. 
>>
>>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Mexicans have been in Arizona far longer than gringos presently here. 
> Why don't all gringos here learn to speak Spanish?

Estoy perezoso!


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