[E Rocc]

I've learned while researching family history that the Catholic school in the Cleveland neighborhood where my grandpa grew up taught in both English and Polish.

There's a place for bilingual education as a stopgap, but only as a path to full English fluency. Then, unlike now, no one saw refusing to learn English as some sort of cultural identity preservation, they saw it as glupi

-Eric

[Heartland Mom]

And I’m pretty sure that government publications weren’t printed in Polish and telephone operators didn’t give you the option of speaking with a Polish operator, either.

[VanShuyten]

My father’s parents came from Germany and learned to speak English fluently. One major incentive that’s not mentioned here is that during WWI, it was ILLEGAL TO SPEAK GERMAN IN PUBLIC in many places. My great-grandfather was essentially under house arrest because his English was poor.