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To: CONSERVE
"Yes and they all learned English and did not expect companies and schools to teach Spanish to accommodate them "

Hispanics learn English as fast as any other wave of immigrants did. It's difficult for adults to learn a new language. The ones in the workforce learn what they need to do their jobs. The young children pick it up fast, same as other immigrants.

Schools are not for the benefit of the parents or the kids. They are for the benefit of our entire community and state.

We educate them so they can be productive taxpayers. Texas has one of the best programs for vocational education. Our large pool of workplace ready employees is one reason we were just rated the most favorable state in which to locate a business.

Businesses pay the vast majority of taxes, not average individuals. Maybe that's why we have a $6.5 Billion surplus.

120 posted on 02/03/2005 11:50:11 AM PST by bayourod (Unless we get over 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2008, President Hillary will take all your guns away.)
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To: bayourod
Schools are not for the benefit of the parents or the kids. They are for the benefit of our entire community and state.

The key word in this would be our as in the United States of America not Mexico. We should not have to spend more money to educate children who do not speak English due to the fact that their parents will not learn any more than they have to for the work place. Speak total Spanish at home instead of trying to help their children by learning and teaching them English. Maybe you should read some history of Immigrants to this country.

152 posted on 02/03/2005 3:27:36 PM PST by CONSERVE
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