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By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:24:47 +0000

I may have said this before. I have a relation who is big in the hospitality business. His view of “bilingual ed” is that it’s designed by the big hotel chains to provide them with a source of cheap labor. These folks couldn’t conceivably get any other job, so that keeps the wages down.
Other than a perverse desire among educrats to see these folks fail, my relation’s suspicion is as good as any I’ve heard.

By: Cardinal Fang

Cardinal Fang — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:24:49 +0000

Great. Illiterate in two languages.

By: gahrie

gahrie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:50:00 +0000

1) The majority of these kids have no interest in moving out of these sheltered classes. They are in small classes, with friends they have known since kindergarden and have very low expectations to meet.

2) Most of these kids are failing not to due to language issues, but academic issues. As the article points out many if not most of them are born in the United States, and grow up speaking English. But when they were enrolled in kindergarden, their parents checked off the “Spanish spoken in the home” box.

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By: nailsagainsttheboard

nailsagainsttheboard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:45:18 +0000

Thank goodness for Proposition 227 in California, ending the ‘bilingual education’ mandate in most public school districts. ‘Bilingual education’ was neither bilingual, nor an adequate education. The Left simply wanted monolingual Spanish to predominate and put the burden of teaching the mostly Latino students’ heritage and culture to Uncle Sam, state, and local governments, instead of the family or community, as most Asian immigrant students have done (ie. privately funded Thai or Korean Saturday school). Supreme Court cases, such as Lau v. Nichols (1974) were reinterpreted and perverted by leftist judges to include all day ‘bilingual’ instruction, funded by the taxpayers, of course. Whatever happened to “E Pluribus Unum”????