“If they are not fluent in English, how the hell are they qualified to graduate?”
While I agree with you, I have to say that a majority of graduating high school students are functionally illiterate, and those are the ones who speak English. First came Dick and Jane, replacing phonics, and then came bilingual ed and multiculturalism, replacing English submersion. ...Kids these days are screwed from the get-go. They get a next to useless, state education, broken homes and pop culture in place of real culture. I advise parents to home school, and take responsibility for their kid’s education. No matter where their kids are schooled, parents should be the primary educators. Don’t count on the schools to do it.
There's no excuse here. The more frequent disparate languages are accommodated, the less incentive to learn English, greater drain on our economy and greater the risk of Balkanization and civil unrest.