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Corruption is the norm in the Latino ethic. This should not be a surprise.

It's not a coincidence that South American officials are some of the most corrupt in the world (of course, being that they are politicians....that's not saying much)

Here are three personal examples of bi-lingual education.

My ultra-liberal sister lives in the wine country of Kalifornia and there are lots of migrant workers whose kids go to school up there. She thought having my nephew in a bi-lingual class would help him learn Spanish when he first started school. She said that at the end of the year, the spanish-speaking kids spoke only spanish and hung out together and the english-speaking kids spoke only english and hung out together. Each group learned little, if any, of the other language.

Seems to me that learning the language of the country you're living in will be a huge advantage to these kids. When my son was in kindergarten, a little boy came from Japan in January and spoke no english at all. At the end of the school year, he spoke perfect english with no accent and played with all the kids.

This year my son is in 3rd grade and a little girl from Japan started the year not speaking any english. The japanese boy from his kndergarten class has been helping her and she now speaks perfect english with no accent.

"How would you feel if you were told that your kindergartner was assigned to a classroom in which instruction is given entirely in Spanish, even though he doesn't understand a word of the language? "

If I had smuggled myself and my kids into Mexico City, and they didn't speak Spanish, I would probably be very afraid that the Mexican police would catch and deport us !
... or deport them and jail me !

Meanwhile, back to the start of all this, from my experience more people will move because of their perception of politicians and political and personal security than the ethnic makeup of neighbors. Argueable, but that's my experience

If you are looking for boneheads in California, you'll find more quicker by looking for politicians and school boards than you will by ethnic profiling.

Which might be why Catholic schools are popular in SoCal. Even among gringos of all colors and non-Catholics.

IMHO

She says that in 1999 Lopez said that he would get rid of Anglos in the system. And, Gonzalez says: "Last night he said he would get Spanish at the junior high schools and high schools." Her husband adds, "They [the kids] will get jobs in the fields or in the car wash."

Someone please translate that to Spanish and send that to every Santa Ana household in both languages.

One of my neighbor's a couple years back was Latino. He was from Chicago and his parents were from Mexico(legally). He can speak both English and Spanish without any problem at all, and his parents also made sure that both they and he learned ENGLISH. They are doing alright for themselves as well.

And needless to say, they have a big problem with those that refuse to learn English, and probably a bigger problem with people like Gonzalez here who think all these students are good for is working at the car wash.