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"Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com> wrote in 
news:623grvF21kud8U1@mid.individual.net:

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> "RD (The Sandman)" <rdsandman(spamlock)@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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>> "Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> news:620dluF1vpbhvU1@mid.individual.net:
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>>> "Wayne" <mygarbagecan@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>>> "Pubkeybreaker" <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:6164fac6-b716-4042-aa41-5a7bc9132f31@
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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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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> One down, five million to go.

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