Posted on 02/07/2008 1:43:33 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Mandatory School Spanish Classes Anger Texas Parents
Thursday , February 07, 2008
A Texas school district is reviewing its second-language requirement after concerns over students being forced to learn Spanish, according to reports.
Some parents at Timberline Elementary School in Grapevine, Texas, are outraged their children have to take Spanish as a mandatory second-language requirement, MyFOXDFW.com reported.
Leigh Allison, the mother of fifth-grader Ashleigh, said the policy makes life easier for Hispanic immigrants and her daughter shouldn't be forced to conform, according to a report on Star-Telegram.com.
"She wants to be that one voice that forces them to learn English," Leigh Allison told the paper. "We're not going to turn America into a bilingual country to accommodate you."
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Cowtowing to the illegal invaders. How very PC of them.
I don’t see what all the fuss is. In so many nations, English is required as a second language course, just because one tends to need it to get along in this global economy. By a similar rationale, it makes a lot of sense for American schoolkids to learn Spanish. It may be more sensible to let them choose among 3-5 languages (it would be nice if Arabic were offered more in our schools, considering the current situation in the world), but the bottom line is, we should start foreign language education sooner in our country.
Things like this are making it very hard for me to try to convince CT that there’s no NAU plot.
It’s only going to get worse with the next President Clinton.
Yes, foreign language was a requirement when i went through school, but I had a choice. Being forced to learn a language with no choice is another story altogether.
All the garbage in a typical public school curriculum, and these people are opposed to learning Spanish? Did they protest the showing of “An Inconvenient Truth” in every class, irrespective of the subject that was supposed to be taught?
In my High School you had your choise, Latin, French, Spanish, and Greek. You were required to take four years of Latin and four years of one other language, plus two years of a modern language, get my drift?
I agree with you; forcing us to learn a specific language to accomodate invaders with no desire to assimilate is cr@p.
My grandparents (here legally from Macedonia) never spoke English in the home. My grandmother never spoke English, period. Nobody expected the teachers at Indianapolis Washington High School to teach my mom in Macedonian. Academically, she did just fine.
NOBODY SPEAKS ENGLISH, ANYMORE
I jumped in a taxicab
And said driver Central Park
He looked at me so quizzically
I could tell he was in the dark
So I acted out my park charade
And with my arms the trees I made
Nobody speaks English anymore
Went down to Miami Beach
Where the weather is nice and sunny
I walked in to a liquor store
But the guy there talked real funny
I asked him for a pint of ole Jim Beam
He says no intiendo, what does that mean?
Nobody speaks English anymore
At the corner deli, hell I think I’m in Pakistan
Speak English smelly, or you can go back to Iran
I came here many years ago
And I learned my ABC’s
I don’t say muchas gracias
I say pretty please
So get yourself to a classroom quick
You’re in America now stop making me sick
Nobody speaks English
Nobody speaks English
Nobody speaks English anymore
Turn out brain dead, rock hard stupid students who can be stupid in two languages!
Real progress for a real America.
“We’re not going to turn America into a bilingual country to accommodate you.”
I think currently is press 1 for English.
As it is she better start practicing “El Zapateo”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpymBEEZdE
Or has she not heard “Where there is one Mexican, there is Mexico!”
I was in elementary school in Houston many decades ago, and Spanish was a requirement from about 3rd grade on, it was not an elective. I think once you got to high school, there were other languages offered if I remember correctly.
"2. Spanish. Bestow great attention on this, and endeavor to acquire an accurate knowledge of it. Our future connections with Spain and Spanish America, will render that language a valuable acquisition. The ancient history of that part of America, too, is written in that language. I send you a dictionary."
Self ping #16 for later reading..
From another article -
The parents are claiming that students are being forced to learn Spanish, while children of immigrants aren't being forced to learn or speak English.
The signs posted around Timberline Elementary are done in both English and Spanish, and so are the school letters and other information.
“(it would be nice if Arabic were offered more in our schools, considering the current situation in the world)”
Just in case we’re all under Sharia Law in a few years?
Gotta wonder about your comments.
Any indication that native-speakers of Spanish are being required to study English?
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