Originally posted by Woodencross: If you live is LA then you should understand. English should be the national language, that way we wouldn't have to worry about all the illegals NOT speaking english and thinking they can get away with it.
besides your example of the poor principals being required to learn English, what would making English the official language do? it would force people to learn English? how so? would it make spanish radio/tv/magazines illegal? would companies not be allowed to advertise in spanish? would people not be allowed to talk to each other in a foreign language? i think i see where you think it would make a big difference, but in reality, i dont think it would do that much.
and btw, based on my public school teaching experience, immigrant children, whether illegal or not, strive to learn English. it may not be to the educational standards but kids actually get made fun of for not speaking English, by other immigrant kids who have learned it. i have met many adults who speak only spanish/chinese/armenian/whatever and their kids translate for them. I covered some ESL classes before. most of the kids in there spoke more English than I speak Spanish.
Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
