Just a guess—when kids learn English, opportunities are opened to them. They can escape from being in a permanent underclass. That is a threat to totalitarian leftists who want as many people as possible to be mired in poverty, so that the leftists can amass power through false promises of a better life.
“Just a guess—when kids learn English, opportunities are opened to them. They can escape from being in a permanent underclass. That is a threat to totalitarian leftists who want as many people as possible to be mired in poverty, so that the leftists can amass power through false promises of a better life.”
That was exactly the response from the Mexican-American parents when asked why they voted to end bilingual education years ago: “We want our children to have better jobs than we have”. It was widely agreed at the time (and this is evident here in NJ now) that “bilingual education” produces students who speak both English and Spanish poorly.