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Arizona Nursing Student Sues After Being Suspended for Requesting Instruction in ENGLISH
Top Right News ^ | 02-24-2014 | Brian Hayes

Posted on 02/24/2014 7:00:14 PM PST by montag813

mexico-america

by Brian Hayes | Top Right News

As if it isn’t enough we have to battle BOTH parties to keep tens of millions of illegal invaders from being handed amnesty, we also have to fight just to maintain our common language. And as with the La Raza Studies battle in Tucson, Arizona is once again the battlefield.

An Arizona college is being sued for labeling a student a “bigot” and punishing her with a long-term suspension after she requested that English be used in her nursing studies class so she could learn the subject.

The action was filed against Pima Community College on behalf of student Terri Bennett, who alleged that school officials created a “learning environment [that] was hostile to her as an English-language speaker.”

The case will proceed to trial in March.

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To: workerbee

Learning Spanish says to me you have accepted that Mexico and its ILLEGALS will be the majority. Surrender already then.

There is no other nation on earth that so willingly gives up its borders, language, and culture


61 posted on 02/25/2014 5:40:48 AM PST by Nifster
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To: JRandomFreeper

I took Latin in high school as well as Russian.

I live in a country who’s official language is English. I hate the fact that people come here to live and work (and use services but pay no income tax because they work under the table) and REFUSE to learn the language. Throw them all out. Send them back to the drug infested hell holes they came from


62 posted on 02/25/2014 5:42:58 AM PST by Nifster
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To: JRandomFreeper

Tucson, Arizona is where Pima CC is. The people speak English. Very few do not speak English. Pima CC is already in hot water. I don’t expect this will help.


63 posted on 02/25/2014 5:49:37 AM PST by petitfour
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To: Nifster
I live in a country who’s official language is English.
You're lucky. Where I live (USA) we do not have any nationally declared official language.
64 posted on 02/25/2014 6:17:53 AM PST by posterchild
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To: workerbee

They’d be better off learning accounting, finance, computer programming. Then again, if they plan a career in landscaping, garbage hauling, fast food, etc. then it may be a good thing to do. I can’t think of an environment withing the United States I would want to stay in where only Spanish is spoken.


65 posted on 02/25/2014 7:48:25 AM PST by MSF BU (n)
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To: posterchild

Actually you do. It happened back in the 1800s. All official correspondence and business of government is done in English.

The lefties managed to get all of the added language requirements that so burden every one


66 posted on 02/25/2014 9:25:02 AM PST by Nifster
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To: JRandomFreeper; Travis McGee
We did take the Republic from Mexico.

In a manner of speaking.

From Travis McGee's chronology of the area, after the Mexicans overthrew the Spanish, they were unable to project much influence over the northern reaches of their "territory".

67 posted on 02/25/2014 1:03:58 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: hamboy; JRandomFreeper

I strongly suspect that Johnny knows more about the history of Texas than you know about the history of wherever you are.


68 posted on 02/25/2014 1:17:50 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
We didn't fight the Spanish at San Jacinto, that's for sure.

/johnny

69 posted on 02/25/2014 1:24:50 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Actually, what I should have said was “Johnny was an eye-witness to most of the history of Texas”. ;-P


70 posted on 02/25/2014 1:31:42 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JRandomFreeper; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...
Ping!

Click the keyword Aliens to see more illegal alien, border security, and other related threads.

71 posted on 02/25/2014 1:37:39 PM PST by HiJinx (Borders, Language, Culture)
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To: HiJinx

Been trying to avoid this story as it makes my blood boil.

I recall a semester or two at Pima back in the 70s.

Don’t recall anyone speaking in Spanish, much less being forced to learn in Spanish...unless you were in a language class.

In fact, such a thing would have been considered absurd then, no matter what Raul Grijalva thought about it.


72 posted on 02/25/2014 1:59:30 PM PST by Regulator
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To: DuncanWaring
I remember when we finally got dirt. ;)

/johnny

73 posted on 02/25/2014 2:04:02 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Spanish isn't that difficult to learn.

Neither is Ancient Greek. However, Bennett's Nursing Course is not a class in Spanish. It is a class in Nursing, in a tax-supported American institution. If the students cannot communicate in English, perhaps they should study nursing somewhere else.

BTW, Entry level Spanish is not that difficult to learn because it was designed that way. Think about it. You want to teach 16th C Incas, Mayas, Aztecs, Filipinos, etc. YOUR language in a hurry, you make it simple to follow simple orders and throw in "upon the pain of instant death." Voila. Spanish was the first European language to have standard grammar and spelling, and still has a "Tarzan-Jane" level for communicating with natives, which ain't gonna do you much good in biology or anatomy.

However, real Spanish as needed to study a technical subject is just as difficult and subtle as French, German, or Italian, and like them might take a few years to master well enough to study a subject like Nursing.

You might be suffering from "50s Think" when HS dummies were shunted into American HS Spanish. As a result, many a tourist with HS Spanish from the local high scrool has a hard time getting a glass of water in Spanish-speaking territory.

All of which is beside the point. School in English ... very important for "Americanizing" immigrants.

Speaking of "50s Think," Latin gives you a door to the romance languages. A nun told you that?

74 posted on 02/25/2014 2:09:48 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Don't let the aftershave and embalming fluid fool you. Many RINOs are actually dead meat.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

if its tax supported shouldn’t it be available in 72 languages??

:p


75 posted on 02/25/2014 2:10:33 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL
....if its tax supported shouldn’t it be available in 72 languages??

73. You forgot Ebonics. Is you racis?

76 posted on 02/25/2014 2:13:02 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Don't let the aftershave and embalming fluid fool you. Many RINOs are actually dead meat.)
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To: Kenny Bunk
I learned the bulk of my Spanish in kitchens and on pillows, and only had a couple of years of it in school.

And no, I didn't go to a Catholic school. I did go to a private school though, where languages were required from grade 1 onward.

/johnny

77 posted on 02/25/2014 2:18:09 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
I have yet to meet a frenchman that doesn't speak a little bit of german.

Dude....does apples and oranges mean anything?

78 posted on 02/25/2014 2:22:39 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: MSF BU; Nifster; stanne
How one hears the words "I want my kids to learn Spanish" and infers surrender of the country and giving up of English, I cannot begin to imagine. I simply can't. There is and has never been a time when learning a second (third, fourth, etc.) language is bad thing. It's an objective fact that this country is going to have an explosion of Spanish speakers in the next few decades. How on earth anyone can stick their head in the sand and say to their children, "No! Don't increase your skill level and value in the marketplace! Don't do anything to improve your access to all sorts of jobs!"
79 posted on 02/25/2014 2:59:34 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: Regulator

Wow! Did I pick the wrong Post for today’s Ping? /rhet
I hear you, though. And your experience at Pima wasn’t because there weren’t that many Spanish/Mexican descent students in our schools. I look at my ‘72 Cortez High School yearbook and there are a lot of Garcias, Ramirezes, Gonzalezes, and others. Also a lot of Japanese and Italian, for what it’s worth.

But we understood that learning and speaking in English was the way to get ahead in our world. The LaRaza and MeCha activists hadn’t gotten a real foot-hold yet.

Oh well...I still don’t speak any Spanish.


80 posted on 02/25/2014 3:06:39 PM PST by HiJinx (Borders, Language, Culture)
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