Kids kicked off a bus for speaking English

ktsp.com ^ | 01/09/2007 | staff

[elli1]

Individuals benefit by being polyglot...

That's the flip side. The English-speaking kids were benefiting by being immersed in a second language on the bus ride.

[Michael.SF.]

Thank you.

[Egon]

I agree. You called it well.

My take:

The bus driver tried to explain to the kids that it was the wrong bus. One of his explanations was: "If you can speak English, this is the wrong bus for you."

That's what they told their parents, and their parents went off.

It would be interesting to learn if people that were actually in the district were notified of the change. Maybe these particular parents had no clue because they're not in the district. Maybe their kids forgot to give their parents the handout. Who knows.

One thing is clear: this article was written to be reactionary, and it obviously worked.

How dare you try to inject logic into everyone's rant?? ;-)

[Mo1]

WOW ... Who would have thunk it

Liberals are now for segregation

[TheCrusader]

"Somehow, I picture a liberal headline writer saying to his buddies: "Watch what kind of reaction this one gets from the right wing nut jobs!"

And somehow I picture you to be just such a liberal agitator. After all, what else do liberals have to do but cause trouble in America?

These kids were told by the driver that his bus was for 'non English speaking students only', and that they would not be getting a ride home from him, and that they would not be picked up again by him. They were twin girls aged 10 and a boy aged 8. This was a monumental act of negligence for causing a serious safety issue for these little kids, and a potential civil rights violation. Underlying this moronic action by the bus driver are the usual liberal suspects, namely, multiculturalism, reverse discrimination and a politically correct mentality that has caused dementia in the American mind .

[CSM]

"The one at Phalen Lake is for Hmong students learning English."

Why do they not have an English only rule? What good is it if the kids learning english don't use it outside the classroom? What if the kids want to practice english on the school bus?

So many idiot bearucrats, so little time.

[Centurion2000]

They were told by the bus driver the route is for non-English speaking students only.

WTF?? This country is going to balkanize if we don't stop this.

Maybe that's what democrats want?

[Old Professer]

Back when we had fountains there were black only and white only labels on them; bathrooms too, I know, I almost wet my pants at a Greyhound bus stop in Georgia in 1962 heading to Florida because they wouldn't let me in the closest restroom because it was for "Coloreds."

[justshutupandtakeit]

What BS. Far too many people are incapable of teaching ANYTHING.

[Xenalyte]

The family moved outside the school's area. If you live outside a school's area, you are not entitled to a bus ride there and back.

[absolootezer0]

in MN? I always thought they spoke nordic, ya?

[Xenalyte]

If it were your kid, we'd be mocking you for thinking your child deserves to get a ride to a school you moved outside the zone for.

[HOTTIEBOY]

I bet somebody gets "Burned" over this crap!!...

Nobody is gonna get burned for this crap. The victims were English speaking Americans. If anything they are the ones who should be punished. How dare we speak our own language in our own country. /s

[CSM]

"Everybody seems to have missed the truly abusive situation going on here. Busses are damn'd heavy and children shouldn't be made to pick them up."

I don't care who you are, that thar is funny! Thanks for the laugh!

[HOTTIEBOY]

ACLU Headquarter:

"Sir, heres a wire that says some children were kicked off a bus because they don't speak the language"


"The horrors!!! Send in the lawyers immediately!! How dare they discriminate on the basis of national origin!! This is an outrage!! This is racism!! These children deserve to be treated with respect no matter where they come from. Prosecute those responsible!!"

"Um, sir? They were American kids who speak English."

"Well that changes everything. How dare they try to impute their language on to these poor immigrants. The immigrants are allowed to practice their culture. Prosecute those American bigots immediately"

[daviscupper]

Arabic will be instituted only after Muslims start beheading a few more Americans. Then the libs will cave-in and make Arabic mandatory. /Sarcasm but not unlikely in the not too distant future. (Assuming libs take control of America's body politic)

[LowOiL]

They were not "kicked off" for "speaking English".
People really need to read this more closely before getting to excited about it.
Somehow, I picture a liberal headline writer saying to his buddies: "Watch what kind of reaction this one gets from the right wing nut jobs!"

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OK, this nut job read in the article where they claimed they were our of district since they moved and needed to get a ride themselves to the school if they still wanted to attend.

Now I can (just being a dumb right wing nut) assume several things. One is that they still can be taught normal English subjects at this school and are not prevented to attend. Second since the bus when right by their house, that the bus was picking up it's PC subjects just fine right where they were. I assume the bus did pick up Hmong students that far out, but not English students.

[LowOiL]

The family moved outside the school's area. If you live outside a school's area, you are not entitled to a bus ride there and back.

Yet the bus was there picking up students? Something is fishy, you don't drive where you don't pick up students.