Posted on 07/05/2006 7:46:38 AM PDT by srotaG adirolF
more of the article at the link
Well, any reference to "union" is double-plus good in an education context.
We usually like to praise Diversity -- but the rubes are on to this and now recognize this as a Marxist Indoctrination tool. The new terminology "union of cultures" should provide camouflage for our efforts for perhaps 5 years. We have a cell in Toronto working on a follow-up term that can be used after "union of cultures" gets a bad rap.
Congress should have declared English our national language decades ago but they didn't and still don't have the balls to do it. They're more concerned about getting votes.
Bend over, grab your ankles and accomodate the illegal aliens, gringo!
This is way beyond crazy.
God this stuff makes my blood boil.
I can't imagine how a small school district like this could afford to run a bilingual program. And how does the administration justify it against the tradition of assimilation? How does the "melting pot" work when the metals are kept in separate pots?
I recall that LA was forced to teach in English only, much to the dismay of the left. They found out that the children actually did BETTER in a single language school.
But, I guess the left just feeeeeeeeeels better in a bilingual school.
It's a union of cultures < /sarc > yes if the "dominant" culture will surrender everything yet continue public funding.
All of political correctness "diversity training" is political reeducation.
It does look like the usual one-sided propagandistic approach. Note the implied white racism in the title, just to get heads spinning before beginning to read. Note the utter lack of actual data. Note the interviews with participants and employees motivated to support it but none who might object.
Just glad I scratched Colorado off my list of potential states to emigrate to when I decided to leave California.
I suspect a Colorado paper going to Carbondale, Illinois to cover this sort of thing has an agenda. While I have not spent much time in southern IL, I do know that parts of central Illinois with large Spanish speaking populations have friction, not only between Anglos and Latinos, but also between old generation Latino immigrants and the new one.
While the school i slikely implementing the program, the "happy happy joy joy" response of the population is likely a fabrication based on a press release or something like that.
It can't hurt to teach kids a second language, the younger the better.
Unless in this case "bilingual" doesn't really mean TWO LANGUAGES being taught, but everything in Spanish. In which case, it's not really "bilingual" is it?
Right now I am visitng in the Atlanta area. I have never seen such an illegal alien invasion as this. A ton of the stores fly the mexican flag now. Some with no American flag present. It is amazing. I went to McDonalds and the lady taking my order spoke almost no english!!! In America!!!
This is America. Why the Hell should I have to push 1 for English or learn a second language in my own country?
My country is gone the barbarians have arrived, and as with other nations that have tried duel language and culture they are soon in the trash heap.
Illiterate in two languages. Get a mop kids.
Spanish will be increasingly important for us to trade in Latin America.
Spanish is here to stay whether we like it or not.
So let's adapt and learn the language.
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