Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley (Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:31:24 -0400):

> Bill Campbell propounded (on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:52:08PM -0700):
> | I've often discussed this with ``spanish'' friends from the U.S.
> | Southwest, and they've always said that bilingual education is a losing
> | proposition, that it's critical to be able to speak English fluently to get
> | along in the main stream society.
>
> A bilingual education leaves a student unable to speak English fluently?
> Nonsense!
>
> I had a bilingual education, and aver, assert and proclaim that I speak
> English totally fluently.  If the "bi-" side has suffered in my case,
> it's that in recent years I have had only sporadic occasions to read or
> write French.

I think the problem is that many people nowadays would consider a
"bilingual education" to mean "we teach the English-speaking kids
in English, and the Spanish-speaking kids in Spanish" as opposed
to "we will teach all the kids fluency in both languages".  (Note
Bill's comment "it's critical to be able to speak English fluently",
which I take to mean he considers the former meaning here.  Or, at
least, that that's what he would expect if such a system were to
be instituted.)

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