PING!
Sure, lets push French, German, Russian, Italian, Greek, and for the hispanics and blacks, English.
So why do we hire tens of thousands of teachers to teach immigrant children in their native language rather than teach them English?
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Science
The state of the universe.
Jan. 6 2015 7:58 AM
English Is the Language of Science
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That’s lousy luck for scientists in most of the world.
By Boer Deng
Laboratory assistant working with a microscope at the Ngoma health center on February 5, 2014 in Ngoma, Rwanda.
A laboratory assistant works with a microscope at the Ngoma Health Center on Feb. 5, 2014, in Ngoma, Rwanda.
Photo by Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images
I learned English as a second language. Becoming an Anglophone turned out to be a crucial advantage in a brief scientific career years later. (I once worked as a medicinal chemist.) English is de rigueur for many things, but especially for science. More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent, according to data compiled by Scott Montgomery in his book Does Science Need a Global Language?.”
Short pants has never been good at anything without outside support.
Hey Obama, if you live here and go to school here, this is your home, so learn English.
Otherwise you’re just stupid.
TPTB will mandate us to learn Esperanto. Mark my words.
>>says the statement, in order to “build a future workforce that is rich in diversity, heritage, cultural tradition, and language.”
Who lack the ability to communicate with each other??
Obama encouraging balkanization
Sorry, Zero, we don’t have the money in the budgets to hire specialty language teachers to accommodate every student in every Headstart and every school. That is why we have the concept of ‘universal languages’, such as French and English. So one teacher can teach many different nationalities via the long-recognized practice of ‘total immersion.’ America is a land of nationalized values, not balkanized towns that are unable to communicate with each other. (geez, what a dunce)
John, are you writing under another name now?
“...these children will soon make up a “sizable proportion of the workforce” and their linguistic and cultural assets will be needed in an “evolving global economy.”
In today’s thriving obameconomy how many language does one need to ask “Do you want fries with that?”
“to build a future workforce”
We are no longer a citizenry, but a workforce.
Workforce -> welfare and oligarchy funders.
You cant survive and succeed in a country if you cant speak the language. They want to muddy the waters
All of this mess goes away next January.
How about we teach them the three R’s and call it good.
I’ll be most pleased when President Trump signs this Executive Order: “This is America! We speak English!”
And, the Congress sends legislation to his desk making it so!
I have no problem with this.
Children should be multi-lingual anyway. I learned two Romance languages as a child.
A child that is nurtured in their sense of cultural identity won’t feel embittered later in thinking it was “denied” to them. This goes for English speakers as well.
Ensuring proficiency in both languages should be simple enough.
So much for “E Pluribus Unum”
Never thought I could hate a Presisent more than Clinton. But Obama is up to the job.