Bilingualism in education and politics in the United States.?

Answer 1

Sounds like someone else is enrolled in the University of Phoenix lol. So am I and this is one of our checkpoints for Cultural Diversity this week. Man, am I getting tired of this class!

Answer 2

I am 56 and I HATE it if it is required to get a job or such. This is America, we speak English. It should be our national language but once again the govt. screwed up and didn't set it at that when they should have. Probably would have lost votes in their constituents :( I love all accents and peoples, but when I can't get a job or am laid off because I'm not bilingual !! In So OR, a major city has on it's school home site for the school district "All Bilingual applicants will be considered before others". Wow, and when I go to So Ca, I'd like to order at Mc Donalds and be able to ask them for a nutritional print out without them saying " No hablas Englais"

Answer 3

Absolutely. Bilingual education doesn't solely mean Spanish speaking students learning English, but vice versa. As well as French, Mandarin, Urdu, etc. It means a better educated student with a more highly developed sense of critical thought. Bilingual education isn't education solely in the foreign language, but in both.

The whole idea of using a variety of languages is to make sure that all people have equal access to voter information. When your ancestors immigrated in the 1800s the voter information was offered in the native language (there was also a lot of corruption though).

Answer 4

Well I have no problem with it, those who have resources to learn two languages (the rich/upper-middle class for example) will do very well economically, as will those who only know Spanish. The people who will do the worst will be those whose only language is English (the poor, the middle-aged, etc). And if you don't beleive it's already happen, look at the want-ads for blue collar supervisory jobs. Oh as as for these new immigrants being crucial the the U.S. economy since they do jobs that nobody else wants to do, well it turns out there are jobs they don't want to do, in areas with large "immigrant populations" that rely on volunteer firefighters and EMTs, they aren't stepping up to the plate. In many of those areas they are relying on the aging members and no new members are joining.

Answer 5

Absoulutely flippin not. It's a choice if you want to learn it. It would help you out overall, yes. But don't Mandate IT. That is not a good idea. Uproar. ROAR

Answer 6

you are in America boy.....learn to speak English here.....if you don't want to speak English, or like our rules here......go back where you came from.