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To: Illbay
ENGLISH only in schools will educate and send the message that "you are in America, where the English language is the official/native tongue". Yes, we must implement same treatment throughout our nation to bring back a reality check. The greatness of our nation is preserved in presenting the nation for what it is: an American society, a culture proud of its heritage, a people willing to receive other nations, but not be deluted in the process. I don't want to see other cultures take over who we are.
36 posted on 08/20/2002 7:29:33 PM PDT by Hila
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To: Hila
By the time they're in third grade, these kids typically speak English as well as you or I. They are thoroughly bi-lingual, able to converse without accent, and including idioms, in either language.

My point isn't about what the kids should be taught in school, though. It is that a school principal has no business telling a teacher or anyone else what language they might use. That's just silly, silly, and past ridiculous.

45 posted on 08/21/2002 6:09:13 AM PDT by Illbay
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