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"Joseph Meehan" wrote:

JerryL wrote:
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This is America. English is spoken here. You want to speak your native
language, speak it at home amongst your friends and relatives.

So are many other languages spoken here. Why do you think only English
should be spoken here?

Because if people don't speak AT LEAST English, then they have more
problems getting around, communicating with people, etc. Heck even in
China, they are teaching almost everyone English as it is the language
of business and commerce.
Don't have any problem with people speaking Esperanto if they want
to amongst their friends, relatives, etc. But English is still the main
language and for assimilation purposes, people need to speak it.


So what did they do before they learned English? Most Spanish speakers
in the US are learning or already know English. However I see no reason to
demand it. It should be their choice. I believe the US is known as the land
of the free. That freedom I would guess should also include freedom of
speech and I don't recall the freedom of speech being restricted to
English.
How you get that, from the constitution, is beyond comprehension,.


Why do we have to pay for
bilingual teachers to accomadate them when we can't afford to hire
English speaking teachers to educate our children?

That does sound hateful.
There are a number of studies showing that getting non-English
speaking kids out of bilingual classes and into English only schools
increases their grades, etc. Bilingual teaching is a method of
ghettoization.