[Altura Ct.]

This author needs to try again. It must be my imagination that bilingual education has become a hot topic in many areas of the country. The fact that 40 years ago there were no Spanish TV or radio stations in my area and now there a 2 radios stations and one TV station is just happenstance. Press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish didn't exist 40 years ago in this country. Whole sections of most major cities are overtaken with businesses that have only Spanish signs. Bilingual ballots, bilingual just about everything. Hell, even on some cereal boxes. Yep, Spanish is not making any inroads.

[reagan_fanatic]

I've lived next door to a rather large Mexican family for the last six years. Nice people, but never ONCE have I heard them converse in English, not even for a brief moment, and the little children, ranging from 2 years old to 13, converse in Spanish as well - never any English.

As a matter of fact, several of the people living there cannot speak any English at all, despite the fact they have been here for longer than six years.

I don't buy the argument that American-born Latinos are using English more often than Spanish - I just don't see any sign of that from the Mexicans I've been around.