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To: Cowboy Bob
I went to a school where teachers thought I needed remedial education because I spoke two languages instead of one.

What does this even mean?

It is absolutely clear what this means:

1. It means that AOC attended a school

2. That the teachers at that school thought that she should receive remedial education.

3. That the reason those teachers thought that was - because AOC is bilingual.

As the father of trilingual children, I can confirm that schools are very eager to sign up any multilingual child for "special education." That is because the schools often have a vested interest in doing so: They might have a federally-subsidized program for such special programs, and get lots of $$ for every child they enroll in them.

My own daughter - who is fluent in three languages and published, at age 17, a play in a foreign language for which she is actually receiving royalties (was performed again just last month a couple of hundred miles from here), and who was Valedictorian of her HS class - was likewise brow-beaten, admonished for speaking foreign languages on the playground, encouraged to sign up for "remedial" classes, etc., so I am qualified to state an opinion here.

That doesn't alter the fact that AOC is a pompous twit. Also, that she is probably engaging in race-baiting here.

Regards,

25 posted on 03/17/2019 1:30:05 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

My son is bilingual. Can carry on a conversation with 2 people in two different languages at the same time (I’m sure your daughter is the same). No teacher ever suggested that he was stupid for being bilingual. I just think that AOC is just trying to make up an excuse to explain why even at an early age she was widely considered to be a dumbass.


31 posted on 03/17/2019 2:38:12 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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