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Subject: Re: Texas School FORCES Students to Learn Spanish Posted on: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:56:03 +0100

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:10:56 -0500, BDK wrote:

>In article <7p6uq396p4vfggs5e0idlhejgef1tg33ro@4ax.com>,
>gov.shill@... says...
>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:37:04 -0500, BDK wrote:
>>
>> >In article ,
>> >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.
>>
>> I could have used some French where I was today. Think smoke on the water.
>>
>> Shill #2
>> --
>> Pfft...English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
>> Homer J. Simpson
>>
>
>Where you live, it makes sense,

True. I might be able to understand the instructions in the TV remote handbook.
I have a choice of languages. French, German and Italian. Fantastic.

>here, French is useless for the most
>part, unless you like to go to the fancy restaurant where snails are a
>highlight of the menu.

True. We have a hard enough time getting you to speak English, let alone another
language. :-)

Shill #2
--
Pfft...English! Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
Homer J. Simpson

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