T'was ever thus... as it will reflect the surrounding cultures. Getting
involved in your children's education and institutions may be your best
bet to "remedy" this affront. Tom
Stoutman wrote:
He and his child were not given a choice. In the states we've been
hearing a lot about bilingualism for many years. And I can't stand it.
Why? Because bilingualism is semi-officially English/Spanish. It's
ubiquitous: ATMs, on-line banking, phone help lines, ad nauseum give us
the
choice of English or Spanish. NotGerman, Swedish, Russian, etc. Why only
Spanish?

I am also intrigued by this. Why Spanish? I am also disgusted by the
English/Spanish choice at the ATM and grocery store U-Scan.

The Dora the Explorer show really ****es me off. When I was a kid (I'm 35)
we were never exposed to a foreign language at that age. Maybe very
infrequently on Sesame Street. The Explorer show he watches teaches Spanish
every other phrase. Why is there such a big push to force feed Spanish to
American children?? So they can communicate with Jose down the street who
can't speak English?? Why shouldn't Jose learn English instead of our kids
Spanish? Now he is getting force fed Spanish in preschool! Why not
Yiddish? Oy Vey!

My biggest fear is that he might get words mixed up and start speaking
Spanglish!