Lawsuit Demands That Students Be Tested In Their Native Language("Diversity" Pimps Strike Again)

North County Times ^ | 6/02/2005 | Louise Esola

[Humidston]

The first PC commandment: THOU SHALT NEVER HURT ANYONE'S FEELINGS.

[carumba]

These poor slobs are mired in reality, they need to let their imaginations soar. They could offer tests in esirito, gungan, klingon, or morse code. We could write the tests in an ancient long unused language such as Sumerian, Egyptian, Etruscan, or Phoenician. Don't cater to the lowest common denominator. Challenge, uplift, strive to learn for the sake of learning. Sigh, I guess thats what you get when lawyers and judges have the final say.

[garandgal]

Well, they could implement a "Spanish only" policy at a public school. A city in our State did just that...believe it or not!

It's also on the "watch" list to be closed due to low test scores...imagine that!

[angelanddevil2]

"The state is also charged with wasting taxpayer money by testing students in a language they do not yet understand, the suit also states"

How much is it going to cost to test in the native language and teach in that language for 3 to 5 years?. Imagine that. If there is only one student whose native language is Buthanese, they need to test and teach him in Buthanese.....or Swedish, or Catalonian, or Mandarin Chinese, or Cantonese Chinese, or Dutch.....

[FYREDEUS]

I'm going to raise any kids I might have so their "first language" IS Klingon or maybe Esperanto or...HEY I've got it; Aramaic! It was good enough for the Lord so why isnt it good enough for the school system? RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION I tell ya!...that oughta be good for getting lots of TV face time and a steady job appearing on televangelists programs eh? Oh and I'm SUING everyone in sight any time they are 'discriminated' against! ;-)

Afterall isnt the new motto in America "whoever dies with the most lawsuits filed wins"? ;-)

-sigh-...wonders if more engineering schools/grads and fewer law schools/grads could be an improvement?

[moog]

I'm going to raise any kids I might have so their "first language" IS Klingon.

I knew this guy that was the "director" of a Klingon Language Institute. It was one of the funniest things I had ever heard of.

[moog]

Well, they could implement a "Spanish only" policy at a public school. A city in our State did just that...believe it or not!
It's also on the "watch" list to be closed due to low test scores...imagine that!

It wasn't a charter school was it? Probably not, but in the future with such things--everyone trying to put in their own "special school," funds will probably be used for things like it.

[chainsaw]

This is the United States, and we speak, read, and write English.......Learn it !!!

[Route101]

If you can't speak English and will not learn it...go home!

[moog]

This is the United States, and we speak, read, and write English.......Learn it !!! What the heck (in lieu of other words) is this referring to??????? Perhaps, it was the part of the jestful quote that I included before my quote that I had met this guy who was the director of a Klingon Language Institute and that it was one of the funniest things I had ever heard of. I didn't put the (i) tags because it was only a short snippet of a quote. It should have been easy to infer that it wasn't mine.

Of course, I think the same thing as you. This is an English-speaking country and everyone who chooses to reside here should learn it. I just wondered what possessed you to say it to me.

[moog]

--his reply to another guy--"If you can't speak English and will not learn it...go home!"

The guy was saying how stupid and costly it would be to test every "other" language speaker in his/her own language, not advocating that we do so.

[moog]

Unless of course, you were just making a general statement, which, if the case, I apologize.

Please remember that I would say the same thing.

[azhenfud]

...80 percent of his district's 16,000 students are enrolled in beginner-English programs.

"We are not educational failures," he said. "Our students perform very well once they get the opportunity to learn the English language."

So this 80% is within a year of just entering the U.S.? That would place MOST as illegal aliens. I say that because my legal immigrant adopted daughter came here speaking/reading no English and in six months is now reading at a third grade level. Why these aren't is because they don't want to.

[moog]

I say that because my legal immigrant adopted daughter came here speaking/reading no English and in six months is now reading at a third grade level. Why these aren't is because they don't want to.

VERY good point. I would also add that probably their parents don't even have some skills in their OWN language.

[Beckwith]

Then let them go back to their country of origin and get tested.

We've had tens of millions of people migrate here who have assimilated.

[Syberyenta]

"As a result, thousands of (non-native English-speaking) children are left behind because they cannot demonstrate what they know (on English tests)," Hernandez said.

Or is it that thousands of children are left behind because they _do_ demonstrate what they do not know? The English teachers have failed.

[chainsaw]

Your correct. It was just a general stqatement and I should have included </sarcasm> sorry about that.

[moog]

It was a first reaction I can indeed react a bit. Then I realized you were just making a statement.

[Route101]

"Diversity Pimps"...love it.