Posted on 09/13/2014 3:38:43 PM PDT by InspCallahan
Edited on 09/13/2014 3:40:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Applicants to the University of Texas (UT), among potentially many other schools, can benefit from affirmative action if English is not spoken in the applicant’s home.
This little-noticed feature of the UT admissions program was buried in last year’s Supreme Court decision, Fisher v. University of Texas. As the Fisher majority explained, students can reap the rewards of preferences for “speaking a language other than English at home.”
Several legal experts find this form of preference questionable, if not unconstitutional.
“It discourages assimilation,” Gail Heriot, a University of San Diego law professor, says. By potentially rewarding applicants from families that do not speak English precisely because they have not linguistically assimilated, the preference seems to run against the grain of the American immigration ethos.
Heriot, who is also a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, offered the following illustration: "Imagine an immigrant father who tells his family, ‘We must improve our English and speak it in the home, because we're in a new country where English is the first step to success.’ In 1914, his statement would have carried great moral authority. He would have been right. But now the answer is, ‘No, you silly old man, you'll ruin my chance to get into the University of Texas.’
snip
Class action lawsuit time.
If they can’t speak English, why the hell would we want to waste U.S. TAXPAYER dollars to “educate” them? That’s dumb. Stupid.
Rather fond of Bennett, aren’t you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:inspcallahan/index?tab=articles
I’m so glad the United States established some of the finest universities in the world so we could educate the entire planet in preference to our own kids.
‘S’mofo butter layin’ me to da’ BONE! Jackin’ me up... tight me!
I’m sorry, I don’t understand.
Cutty say ‘e can’t HANG!
Oh, stewardess! I speak jive.
Oh, good.
He said that he’s in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Up until fifty years ago, when democrats decided to destroy the fabric of the country, most people, citizens and new immigrants, prided themselves on their independence and self sufficiency.
They were embarrassed to take something they had not earned.
Now we have several generations of socialist leeches who pride themselves on gaming the system and maximizing the handouts they can finagle.
And we have a government dedicated to helping them do it.
What is the problem?
Do da name Obama mean anything?
How else did that idiot get into Harvard Law.
These parasites can’t seem to learn the English language but they sure do learn how to scam the system.
“It discourages assimilation, your kidding me right?
So speaking the language of the country is racist,bigoted and discriminatory.
I guess describing yourself as an American is as well,welcome to the tower of Babble or the mad house which ever you prefer
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.