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cc@foo.no.spam.xyzabcfghllaa.com says...
> Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23039327
> >
> > Student, Mother Protest Mandatory Spanish Class
> >
> > KXAS-TV
> > updated 6:23 a.m. MT, Thurs., Feb. 7, 2008
> >
> > G.VINE, Texas - A mother in the G.vine-Colleyville school district
> > said she is refusing to let her daughter attend mandatory Spanish class
> > because she doesn't think her daughter should be forced to learn the
> > language. "They said sorry you're gonna have to learn Spanish," said Ashley
> > Allison a fifth-grader at G.vine-Colleyville's Timberline Elementary
> > School. "I was just stunned because I couldn't believe they'd actually make
> > me do something like that."
>
> Oh no, the horror! Imagine being forced to learn stuff like a foreign
> language.
>
Yes, and one that's actually of some real use in the US, unlike French,
that might be useful in a few restaurants and a trip to the wine shop.
Oh, and that tourist dream, Quebec.
BDK |