Posted on 06/09/2016 6:02:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Obama administration seems to live in a parallel reality, oblivious to the racial animus that has become the hallmark of late-stage Obama and to the ethnic strife that wreaks havoc on the rest of the world. Inside its own Platonic cave, the thinking is: Over half the world is polyglot, so why not us?
Its latest policy statement, issued jointly late last week by the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, advises states to instruct early childhood students in home languages different from English, and to help them retain separate cultural attachments.
The administration warns that “not recognizing children’s cultures and languages as assets” may be hurting them with school work. “Over half the world’s population is estimated to be bilingual or multilingual,” the statement lectures almost plaintively.
The answer is to celebrate and preserve the differences of dual language learners, or children who speak a different language at home.
The policy statement calls for a range of practices, from creating curricula and educational systems that “support children’s home language development,” to urging states to hire more teachers who “speak the language and/or share the cultural background of children who are DLLs [dual language learners] in the community.”
States must move with alacrity because these children will soon make up a “sizable proportion of the workforce” and their linguistic and cultural assets will be needed in an “evolving global economy.”
“The growing diversity of our nation’s children requires that we shift the status quo,” says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.”
Tolerance and respect are not sufficient—early childhood programs must “embrace and celebrate their diversity.”
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PING!
Sure, lets push French, German, Russian, Italian, Greek, and for the hispanics and blacks, English.
Thirty states have official English laws and more than fifteen others considered similar legislation in the 2007 session. Since November 2006, three states have declared English their official language – Arizona, Idaho and Kansas.
what no Latin for the Latinos ???
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So why do we hire tens of thousands of teachers to teach immigrant children in their native language rather than teach them English?
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The state of the universe.
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English Is the Language of Science
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That’s lousy luck for scientists in most of the world.
By Boer Deng
Laboratory assistant working with a microscope at the Ngoma health center on February 5, 2014 in Ngoma, Rwanda.
A laboratory assistant works with a microscope at the Ngoma Health Center on Feb. 5, 2014, in Ngoma, Rwanda.
Photo by Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images
I learned English as a second language. Becoming an Anglophone turned out to be a crucial advantage in a brief scientific career years later. (I once worked as a medicinal chemist.) English is de rigueur for many things, but especially for science. More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent, according to data compiled by Scott Montgomery in his book Does Science Need a Global Language?.”
Short pants has never been good at anything without outside support.
Fragment America from EVERY perspective.
Military uniformity? Ha!
Communication for business? HA!
Communication for technology?
Mores? Who need them? Pedophiles have rights too! Ewe like sheep? no problem?
Black Armed robbers? Don’t need any racist laws against armed robbery.
Obama logic says who needs it?
The rest of the world is backwards for a reasson.... we lived without America for years... who needs America?
Hey Obama, if you live here and go to school here, this is your home, so learn English.
Otherwise you’re just stupid.
TPTB will mandate us to learn Esperanto. Mark my words.
>>says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.”
Who lack the ability to communicate with each other??
Obama encouraging balkanization
Let’s go for 57 varieties, starting with Hmong, Urdu, Farsi and Tagalog, and let’s not forget Swahili, the language of the Arab slave traders.
Sorry, Zero, we don’t have the money in the budgets to hire specialty language teachers to accommodate every student in every Headstart and every school. That is why we have the concept of ‘universal languages’, such as French and English. So one teacher can teach many different nationalities via the long-recognized practice of ‘total immersion.’ America is a land of nationalized values, not balkanized towns that are unable to communicate with each other. (geez, what a dunce)
If they can communicate with each other, they might get together and gang up on their *sshole leaders.
Yep. Works everywhere it’s tried.
John, are you writing under another name now?
“...these children will soon make up a “sizable proportion of the workforce” and their linguistic and cultural assets will be needed in an “evolving global economy.”
In today’s thriving obameconomy how many language does one need to ask “Do you want fries with that?”
“to build a future workforce”
We are no longer a citizenry, but a workforce.
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