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sarah fidelibus wrote:

>can't hold their own on standardized tests?  Can you imagine 
>immigrating to Vietnam

Yes. I would learn Vietnamese.

If I went to Mexico I would learn Spanish.

If I went to Russia I would learn Russian.

I *do* think we need to have bilingual education, *but* we also need
to teach people the language. Sure, there are many languages spoken
here, but most people speak English, at least as a second language. 

I think any standardized tests should be given at a grade level where
a student may be reasonably expected to have learned the language. The
question is what that grade level is...

I hate to pick on that one point so much, because I agreed with
everything else you said, but I just wanted to express my opinion. :-)
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Brian Mueller
E-mail: mulder78 at ix dot netcom dot com
20 year old male, in Morgan Hill, California, USA
(ten miles south of San Jose, California)