Posted on 10/27/2004 11:21:02 AM PDT by Tamar1973
Imagine that, parents actually CHOOSING for their children to learn English. That's the problem with liberals, they want people to have the right to kill their children but no rights to choose anything else.
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assimilation is a GOOD thing
GOOD! You come to this country, you better learn the language.
This is BS. I'd like those Lincoln teachers to produce some facts to back up this assertion. I'm certainly not going to take their word for it.
I taught first grade in the mid fifties and had two kids in the class that didn't speak a word of English. I was told to just talk to the rest of the class and they would pick up the English.
By June they spoke accent free English and were in the top reading group.
Immersion is the best way!
Good grief. Kids that young are SPONGES. Their minds will absorb whatever you put in front of them. Drop them right in a full immersion English program from day one, with perhaps a bilingual tutor to answer questions outside of class, and by the end of the first year, the child will be fluent. These teachers are whiny unionist job-protectors.
Ping.
Spanish speaking parents WANT their children to learn English - every place where parents have been given a choice, they seem to chose English. In NYC, they were suing to keep from being assigned to bilingual classes.
Yep, exactly. Our parents came here legally in the 1950s and though of course they speak perfect English, we all spoke another language at home (still do). The four of us children learned English in first grade just like you said. A couple of us even ended up in writing fields. Bilingual education is a waste and needs to go away.
See my post #6
When my son was in kindergarten a little boy came from Japan and spoke no English when he started school in January. By June, he spoke perfect English. This is one of many examples I have seen first hand. It seems to me that it's more of a handicap to delay learning Engligh.
You're right. The younger they are, the easier it is for them to learn multiple languages. The older they are, the harder it is. Bi-lingual education quickly becomes a crutch which prevents the students full assimilation into the school system and prevents them from ever being fluent in English.
Common sense strikes again!
Yup, I did, right after posting mine. Your experience bears out what everyone with common sense knows. Of course, NEA zombies don't have common sense, so that's why we're in this mess.
I personally know dozens of kids who have come from Mexico, not speaking a lick of English, and they were fluent by the end of the first year. Out in our rural district, we have no bilingual education budget. They learn English, the language of this land.
My daughter wanted to learn to speak Spanish. I told her to watch Spanish tv and listen to Spanish radio. That worked pretty darn fast.
Shouldn't that be, "No bilingual classes in Saint Rose? ;o)
"Shouldn't that be, "No bilingual classes in Saint Rose? ;o)"
You would think, but to be fair, Spanish was spoken in Santa Rosa before English was.
On another track. I knew a guy that had had nothing but bilingual education all the way through high school. He couldn't even read English and could barely speak it. The liberals didn't do him any favors by giving him a crutch. It crippled him in the end.
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