Posted on 11/07/2016 3:56:17 PM PST by Altura Ct.
The golden state is the ‘fool’s gold state’.
I left Monterey, Ca where I attended high school college, grad school and taught for a year. Times were great in those years. We celebrated and participated in a Merienda in those years. I married a military office and have not really returned since.
Ha ha.
Yeah. They always do that. To them, “bilingualism” means Spanish.
The most chauvinistic, narrow minded, bigoted population I have ever run into.
So I have fun too. I chatter away in Russian, or maybe French. When you do that, they look perplexed. Even shocked.
The concept that their linguistic imperialism could be thrown right back in their uncomprehending faces is completely beyond them, a total surprise.
We should double down on that, and be twice as relentless about NEVER letting them try to undermine our language and our nation.
Because that’s what they are doing, out of their bottomless contempt for us.
Half the day they spoke only English and the other half only Spanish. I don’t have a problem with a Spanish class, but this was a whole half day for little kids that spoke English, our country’s native tongue.
Not to worry. We’re filling out our mail ballots tonite and walking them in tomorrow. We discussed it and you’re right, it is a Trojan. Thanks, FRiend.
Thanks for the reply.
They would be better off having the child speak Spanish all day rather than 1/2 day——too confusing.
Total immersion works very well on younger children-—and they learn the other language accent free.
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I have friends in Pocatello who speak Russian. The wife came from Russia and was employed as a flight attendant. She's currently back in Russia working through the legal system to sell her "half" of her former house. Her ex husband still lives in his "half". The legal system runs very slow there.
Why on earth would my english speaking grandson living in america get his education totally in Spanish?
Some people just want their kids to be bi-lingual-——it’s much easier to learn when very young and most end up taking a language in middle and high school.
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I don’t get it. Kids are learning to read and write and you think they should learn it in Spanish instead of English? I used to speak spanish fluently but I didn’t start learning until sixth grade. Business and everything else is conducted in English in this country. To totally waste a child’s formative years to learn to read and write and math totally in a foreign language instead of English is ridiculous! Why on earth would you want to ruin a child’s life like that?
Same here...........
I have never did it with my kids and they never did it with their kids——it wasn’t available,but the people that I know that have done it love it.
Different ways of learning appeal to many people.
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Prior to the 1970's anybody who did that in a public place in Arizona would get a warning.
What are you saying about us? Are you conspiring to do something to me?
Suspicious behavior is what it is.
The Mexican Supremacists in the California State Legislature (!) are not interested in broadening educational experience.
They only want to convert California into their land. And that starts by overtly imposing their culture, their laws, their language on the State.
Only if you have students that want to learn, but you don't. Why would I want to learn Gringo when soon this will be Mexico again.
Yes. That's true.
But recall that the Spaniards who were the Californios agreed to join the Americans and renounce Mexico, which had changed hands after they left to come to California at the request of the Spanish King.
Men like Mariano Vallejo were political liberals of the time who wanted to live free of royal rule, but they were not so sure about Mexican rule either. What the American settlers promised was self rule, which many of the Californios liked as they had been abandoned by both the Spanish Crown and the post-revolutionary Mexican governments.
But it is many generations later and the people from Mexico who have illegally colonized the state are a different, more aggressive group who equate their own failure as a nation with the loss of the land to the North. This is what their government tells them.
And there have been 6 generations of Americans who made the State what it is. So the reality for the Mexicans is that their linguistic claims to California and the Southwest were overcome by events over 100 years ago.
"Hispanics" were not even counted as such in the 1970 census, but estimates are that they were 4% of the population then. A small minority in a sea of Anglos.
To insist now that "this is our land" is absurd. It was never really theirs.
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