[AlaskaErik]

I’m a first generation American who didn’t speak a word of English when starting kindergarten. Fortunately, there was no nanny state to come to my “rescue.” After a few weeks of listening to the other kids I was conversant in English. Today, I have no accent. That’s how it should done...sink or swim.

[VeniVidiVici]

I’m a first generation American who didn’t speak a word of English when starting kindergarten. Fortunately, there was no nanny state to come to my “rescue.” After a few weeks of listening to the other kids I was conversant in English. Today, I have no accent. That’s how it should done...sink or swim.

That's how is used to be done. And that's still how immigrants from most other parts of the world do it. The come here and learn English. It's only the ones from Latin America that come here and demand to be taught in their native language, with some NEVER learning to speak English.