Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>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!

No, but the government schools should at least be educating
people to get along the the main stream society!  A person
growing up in a spanish-speaking home is going to learn spanish
at home.  How many immigrants from Europe in the early 20th
century came to the U.S. expecting the government schools to
teach their children their native language?

While I had two years of French in 8th and 9th grades, and a
couple of years at Hopkins, The only way I could ever learn to
speak fluently in a language would be to be somewhere where I had
to speak it to get along.  I certainly have a lot of respect for
people who are bilingual, but would bet they didn't get fluent in
a high-school language class.

Bill
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