This is where "multiculturalism" is headed, off the deep end. Politics is like a circle, once you go so far left you start going in this extreme direction.
Wait till we have the "no white" drinking fountains, we're headed back towards segregration, and it will be at primarily the hands of the left, just like it was the first time.
Pig-Latin always works for me...;0)
If you love your children you will work to make your representatives stop funding the NEA and teach your children yourself. Otherwise suffer!
JMHO
Interesting the Hmong get their own bus.
Wow. I wonder what would have happened if a kid got thrown off a bus for not knowing English? Paging the ACLU...
So even thought the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
Why should the district pay money to pick up kids who don't live in their district?
So kids learning English must not be exposed to English in daily life? Segregating these kids, especially below middle school level will retard their learning of English. I know many Vietnamese emigre families that speak Viet in the home. Their children learn English very quickly in school with, at most, an ESOL teacher for an hour a day. It is my observation that the ESOL is not even necessary for more than a few. Their parents encourage the English and would totally oppose language segregation. They want their children to mix and be Americans. By speaking Viet in the home they avoid giving their children strong accents in their English.
Lawsuit time. It used to be the favorite weapon of the leftscum. Well, what's good for the goose...
So even thought the district apologized, if they want to still go to Phalen, they are going to have to get their own ride.
The cheating out-of-district parents were caught when they complained!
The law of unintended consequences strikes again!
This is absolutely disgusting. Absurd. Insane.
And when you call companies to do business you are asked to press a number in order to hear English! English should be automatically default...and other languages should not be offered.
You bet the school district made a mistake! What if their mom couldn't have gotten off work to pick them up after school?
Just imagine the outcry if this had been a Hmong kid on an english-speaking-only bus.
I've had the impression for a while now that the Hmong don't seem to be doing as well as the Vietnamese. ?
I thought they spoke Norwegian up there.
The driver refused to drop off elementary school children back at the point where he/she picked them up? Couldn't that be considered endangerment leaving them there like that?
If the route was for Hmong kids who are learning English, then having them with English speakers on the ride home would only help to achieve the goal.
Shoulda coulda woulda.
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.
"and now the school district is apologizing."
If it were my kid, an apology would not be enough. They'd see me in court defending a civil rights lawsuit.