"Wayne" wrote in message
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> "Cardinal Chunder" wrote in message
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>> Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS wrote:
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23039327
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>>> Student, Mother Protest Mandatory Spanish Class
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>>> KXAS-TV
>>> updated 6:23 a.m. MT, Thurs., Feb. 7, 2008
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>>> 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."
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>> Oh no, the horror! Imagine being forced to learn stuff like a foreign
>> language.
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> It is great to be able to speak a foreign language. However, much of the
> US strength depends upon a common language across all the states.
> Currently we waste millions of dollars to provide content in both english
> and spanish (everything from school textbooks to election materials to
> Home Depot signs). That money could be much better used by educating the
> spanish speaking elementary students to speak english. The money used to
> teach an english speaking student to communicate in spanish is a waste of
> money that could very well be used in core subjects, such as math. The
> language studies should come after a student is competent in the
> fundamentals, or if the student is good enough to work in language studies
> in addition.
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You are an idiot. The early that an language is introduced, the easier it
is to learn, Learning spanish at an early age, being a latin based
language, will make learning all other latin based languages easier. It
will also benefit learnign english as well
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