Obama Administration Looks to Cement Ethnic Divides With Language Mandate

The Daily Signal ^ | June 8, 2016 | Mike Gonzalez

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Obama administration seems to live in a parallel reality, oblivious to the racial animus that has become the hallmark of late-stage Obama and to the ethnic strife that wreaks havoc on the rest of the world. Inside its own Platonic cave, the thinking is: Over half the world is polyglot, so why not us?

Its latest policy statement, issued jointly late last week by the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, advises states to instruct early childhood students in home languages different from English, and to help them retain separate cultural attachments.

The administration warns that “not recognizing children’s cultures and languages as assets” may be hurting them with school work. “Over half the world’s population is estimated to be bilingual or multilingual,” the statement lectures almost plaintively.

The answer is to celebrate and preserve the differences of dual language learners, or children who speak a different language at home.

The policy statement calls for a range of practices, from creating curricula and educational systems that “support children’s home language development,” to urging states to hire more teachers who “speak the language and/or share the cultural background of children who are DLLs [dual language learners] in the community.”

States must move with alacrity because these children will soon make up a “sizable proportion of the workforce” and their linguistic and cultural assets will be needed in an “evolving global economy.”

“The growing diversity of our nation’s children requires that we shift the status quo,” says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.”

Tolerance and respect are not sufficient—early childhood programs must “embrace and celebrate their diversity.”

[Jane Long]

Workforce -> welfare and oligarchy funders.

[ronnie raygun]

You cant survive and succeed in a country if you cant speak the language. They want to muddy the waters

[Tellurian]

“a future workforce”

Good catch. This will be for the proles.

[liberalism is suicide]

Seems like the language favored by the government is communese.

[Cobra64]

All of this mess goes away next January.

[VTenigma]

How about we teach them the three R’s and call it good.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Close enough.

https://youtu.be/BNGmKw-VxF4

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

They don’t even need that. Robots will be doing their jobs.

[BwanaNdege]

"Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves....

"The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11

[Don Corleone]

>>says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.” Who lack the ability to communicate with each other??

The tower of Babel!

[Rebelbase]

“More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent,”

Educational imperialism. I’m feeling triggered.

[Taxman]

I’ll be most pleased when President Trump signs this Executive Order: “This is America! We speak English!”

And, the Congress sends legislation to his desk making it so!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Faith Presses On :" “to build a future workforce”
We are no longer a citizenry, but a workforce."

Citizenry becomes a workforce - when we lose the value of our vote
The workforce becomes dehumanized - then we become an ambiguous number
The dehumanized becomes a drone - rhythmically going thru repetitive motions
The drone is already a robot - merely replaced by a mechanical machine .

[the_individual2014]

This is a pure example of balkanization and we saw what happened in the 90’s in the Balkan part of Europe when this happens, get the hell out of here, we cannot take 4 more years of lefists.

[right way right]

That is very significant to one like myself who believes the bible is the word of God to reflect on and discern what goes on around us and within us.

This of course also points to the need to reflect on all of history for the same reason.
It is amazing how the modern ignorant masses refuse to look on history in moving forward. That would be progress, not what evil instead calls progressive.

[Zuse]

I will do my part for diversity by changing my name back to Cyrillic script.

Why not? Everybody else seems to have accents, umlauts, tildes, cedillas, etc.

[SleepySimon]

I have no problem with this.

Children should be multi-lingual anyway. I learned two Romance languages as a child.

A child that is nurtured in their sense of cultural identity won’t feel embittered later in thinking it was “denied” to them. This goes for English speakers as well.

Ensuring proficiency in both languages should be simple enough.

[The Westerner]

WTF is an “early childhood student”!?

[Jimmy Valentine]

So much for “E Pluribus Unum”

Never thought I could hate a Presisent more than Clinton. But Obama is up to the job.

[trebb]

The administration warns that “not recognizing children’s cultures and languages as assets” may be hurting them with school work. “Over half the world’s population is estimated to be bilingual or multilingual,” the statement lectures almost plaintively.

Despite the evidence that being obsessed with "roots" and not being American seems to make students stupid, fat and dependent on EBT cards when the grow up....