Posted on 12/23/2014 9:42:38 AM PST by reaganaut1
California voters, by an overwhelming majority, passed Proposition 227 mandating English-immersion schooling in 1998.
Democrat leftists in charge of education, to their eternal shame, broke the law and ignored it. The child in the article who can’t speak English after 11 years in Los Angeles public schools is a product of their arrogance and lawlessness.
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how about English immersion, teach them quickly
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No, no, can’t do that. There are far too many ESOL teachers who are running up the cost of public education by having these illegals in their classes.
how about English immersion
Three years later, I was walking to class in the local college, and someone called my name. After exchanging some pleasantries, I said “Henry, you speak wonderful English - how so?”. “This is America, if you want to live here, you better learn” he replied. Too bad he didn’t have some government program, watching out for his “best” interest /s.
Just another mad, mad day in Mexifornia.
Mexican gangs be offin’ each other Big Time in Watsonville and Salinas, two towns that used to be squeaky clean and quiet.
Now they’re just Mexican war zones.
“”how about English immersion, teach them quickly”””
See- it’s racist, xenophobic, bigoted and demeaning comments like that that gives FR a bad name.
Salinas? I remember my time in that area (Monterey, Watsonville, Gilroy, Salinas), just as you describe it. Quiet, friendly.
For a long time we’ve seen an undercurrent on FR predicting CWII. Reckon it’s here...
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So she got passed along, year after year, not learning English.
Clearly, the ONLY solution is to give the schools that did this to her and many others like her MORE MONEY!! Then and only then will they be able to help the Dashas of the world.
(/sarc)
When I suggested in Spanish, of course, that the meeting be conducted in English, with me and others translating for those who did not speak English, I was roundly booed!
Oddly enough, the fact that classes were conducted en español didn't bother me as much as the fact that nothing much was actually being taught in any language. Had to take the kid out and go private.
Immersion. Way to go. But no matter what the language, some sort of actual content might also be helpful
I noticed this during my long residence in LA. Speaking of Language Studies, how come no one is learning German in HS anymore?
Heck, you can hardly find any schools teaching French anymore, I seem to remember back in the day French was virtually taught at every school.
I taught ESL for 30 years, and I know why. Many studies have shown that just two years of intensive English brings the non-English speaker up to near native speaker level.
However, that makes the students lag behind in other areas. The social costs of having older students in other classes was deemed too great, so they went with bilingual classes in which neither the coursework nor the English was mastered.
Go figger.
A few years ago, my wife’s cousin and his family came here from Cuba.
Their two young children, didn’t speak a word of English.
Fast forward a few years, and those kids speak English....PERFECTLY!
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