Posted on 02/05/2011 11:14:13 AM PST by moonshinner_09
A new voice for the Spanish-speaking community is being heard at McDowell High School. Spanish-speaking students in McDowell have launched the countys newest newspaper.
Under the guidance of English-as-a-second-language instructor Marriette Vandersluijs, the kids in her Spanish-for-native-Spanish-speakers class launched La Conexxion Latina in November. The first edition had eight color pages with an emphasis on the views and perspective of the McDowell High School Hispanic students, their families and the community in general. Virtually all of the text is in Spanish.
A hot topic currently is the federal DREAM Act, a House-passed bill meant to provide a path to higher education and citizenship for the kids of illegal immigrants. The bill is currently awaiting passage in the Senate.
La Conexxion Latina staff conducted man-on-the-street interviews and included some quotations as a sidebar to their story (the Gringo: "I think it is okay to pass the dream act to help those who are illegal," reads a translation), a breakdown of the DREAM Act's contents and an update on its legislative history, as well as what the act could mean to some local Hispanic kids and their chances of earning a higher degree.
(Excerpt) Read more at 2.mcdowellnews.com ...
I wanna learn Esperanto! We should all speak Esperanto! 8^)
At the expense of the taxpayers?
Polish: Ona otwierała okno w ranie
Those are the only two I'm interested in.
Also note that the little dears slipped in the word "gringo" which, last I heard, was pejorative.
I understand New Brunswick is officially bilingual, French and English.
“Constitution Amendment, 1993 (New Brunswick)
Established the equality of the English-speaking and French-speaking communities in New Brunswick.”
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