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Post by dgriffin on Apr 8, 2011 16:52:46 GMT -5
Its been proven over the last two centuries, those that assimilated and became American, not just American's have succeeded ten fold over those that brought the old country with them to live in here. Teaching legal immigrants English, Customs and Courtesies should be our number one priority, then formal education being able to understand what is being taught. Illegal Aliens are a whole 'nother topic, don't get me started on that... JG, they don't want to learn English. They like their language just fine. They (most) want to work, get paid, raise families and be left alone, just like the rest of us. They have heard that's the way it works in America, Land of the Free, Land of Go Away And Leave Me Alone. If it's too expensive to dual label everything then we can as a nation decide on one official language and those who don't speak it will have to get along somehow. They will. They have. And eventually everyone will know enough of the official language to survive. Look at all the people who participated in the formation of America who couldn't read and write. And many had less of a vocabulary than my 8 year old granddaughter. |
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Post by Clipper on Apr 8, 2011 18:09:49 GMT -5
YOUR 8 year old grand daughter has probably already published her first short stories.  ;D She might even be a ghost writer on More Stories. LOL |
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Post by JGRobinson on Apr 8, 2011 18:17:11 GMT -5
Dave, I'm not saying that they can't choose that for their future but to enter public school, you should be able to read, write and speak english at their nearest equivalent grade level to attend non language classes at public school.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2011 20:14:03 GMT -5
Dave, I'm not saying that they can't choose that for their future but to enter public school, you should be able to read, write and speak english at their nearest equivalent grade level to attend non language classes at public school. I don't get it! |
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 8, 2011 20:16:04 GMT -5
I haven't spoken to anyone in the schools about it recently, but I think it sort of happens the way you describe, JG. Money drives the situation and in New York State at least a school would have compelling reasons to justify how they will handle non-English speaking students.
Schools are an example of why English education is necessary. Without English, society would have to foot the bill for two language sets of classes for all subjects through high school. I don't know of any serious group that has proposed that and it would certainly not be affordable.
Someone here on the forum is familiar I think with Utica schools and posted not long ago that ESL does not involve as many extra teachers as is sometimes claimed.
Now ... on to illegal immigration. Great Topic! I'll start another thread under National News.
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;D She might even be a ghost writer on More Stories. LOL