Latino Parents Decry Bilingual Programs

NY Times ^ | July 14, 2004 | SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN

[Akira]

No shocker here, just thought I'd post it. Learning English from the Cartoon Network b/c schools won't teach them.

[FormerACLUmember]

Bilingual Education is one of the most efficient means of enslaving an entire population into permanent failure and poverty.

This is not the American Way. But hey, liberals need their low cost maids, toilet cleaners and landscapers.

[Tuco Ramirez]

Educrats in NY have been accused of removing English-speaking children (who had indicated on some form that Spanish was spoken in their home) from regular classes and casting them into Spanish classes...

[CFC__VRWC]

But hey, liberals need their low cost maids, toilet cleaners and landscapers.

Not to mention they need their permanent underclass that's totally dependent on government handouts, so they can buy votes by promising to keep the checks coming.

[Dolphy]

Bilingual Education is one of the most efficient means of enslaving an entire population into permanent failure and poverty.

Yes it is and yet we have a society that is making it possible to do everything from bank to vote without speaking or reading English. It sickens me, not because I care what language people are speaking but because we are creating a parallel culture and destroying the formula that led to the melting pot, one of the great achievements of this country.

[Tax-chick]

Alberto, a 9-year-old who will enter sixth grade in the fall.

Wow, smart kid! The average for sixth grade is 11. Best wishes to these parents ... moving the education bureaucracy, especially in New York, seems near to impossible.

[FormerACLUmember]

Not to mention they need their permanent underclass that's totally dependent on government handouts, so they can buy votes by promising to keep the checks coming.

Liberals are forever trying to enslave populations into a captive underclass, cannon fodder in the war to maintain the power of the utterly amoral and corrupt democrat party.

Bilingual education and the NAACP exist only to completely degrade and betray latino and black Americans.

[AuH2ORepublican]

This is all about the teachers' unions. Bilingual education programs create thousands of teaching jobs nationwide that would not exist if students from Spanish-speaking homes were allowed to learn English in school. And, as usual, the teachers' unions care more about their benefits than about what is best for the children.

[Akira]

I can't exactly explain why a 9 year old is going into 6th grade, but on another note - these schools likely aren't allowed to fail kids or hold them back, regardless of their performance or abilities.

[FormerACLUmember]

It sickens me, not because I care what language people are speaking but because we are creating a parallel culture and destroying the formula that led to the melting pot, one of the great achievements of this country.

It is pathetic how low the evil rat party has sunk, that it seeks to destroy the Melting Pot.

[gubamyster]

ping

[agrarianlady]

Was this in the editorial section of the New York Times? Probably, as it seems to be putting forward an opinion. I'm glad to see it.

How utterly sad for these kids.

I have a friend who is Dutch and is raising her boy to be bilingual. She talks to him only in Dutch at home. He's now almost 4 and can barely speak in English to the rest of the Americans he has to deal with. (She likes to use a lot of babysitters. Especially free ones). He struggles and has such a difficult time my hubby and I feel sorry for him.

I've noticed, however, another couple in my church who have one spouse Dutch and one English. Their grown-up kids speak English (they were raised in the States) but with a definite accent. I don't know if their Dutch is perfect, either. It almost seems like a handicap to not speak one language perfectly. I wonder if anyone else has experience with this.

[nothingnew]

The Tower of Babel lives on, with reinforcement by the "progressives" (read marxists). The last thing the progressives want is for our LEGAL immigrants, not to mention the illegal immigrants, to understand just what they have planned for them. Slavery. Slavery via the milk&cheese giveaways, the "no child left behind" newspeak, and the continuation of keeping the progressives' "new niggers"( read spanish descent,which has become our biggest "minority" surpassing the black population) on their plantation.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Maria S]

"Bilingual Education is one of the most efficient means of enslaving an entire population into permanent failure and poverty."


You get an A+ for the day.

[dano1]

we are creating a parallel culture and destroying the formula that led to the melting pot

Right, and the teachers often seem intent on indoctrinating the kids to think of themselves as victums.

[swampfox98]

Its going to be a shock when the illegals and legal immigrants learn how really stupid the people are who run American schools.

[DumpsterDiver]

I've noticed, however, another couple in my church who have one spouse Dutch and one English. Their grown-up kids speak English (they were raised in the States) but with a definite accent. I don't know if their Dutch is perfect, either. It almost seems like a handicap to not speak one language perfectly. I wonder if anyone else has experience with this.

I've read articles that say if one parent always talks to the child in Dutch and the other parent only speaks to the child in English, then the kid will be fine. The child can readily sort out the two languages as long as each parent sticks to one language.

There, ya got my 2-cents worth. :)

[Guillermo]

Duh.

If they don't learn proper English in school, they will always be dependent on Government largesse.

Haven't people figured out by now that left wing policies are in fact designed to keep people dependent on them?

[FormerACLUmember]

You get an A+ for the day.

I would trade the glory of that gold star you gave me, if I could save one innocent kid from the horror of the NEA's bingual education enslavement.