Do you support bilingual education?

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Bilingual Education: Schools may conduct classes in Spanish or other languages using federal Title VII funds, which totaled $380 million last year (1% of total spending). 13% of K-12 students speak a language other than English at home. Generally, liberals favor bilingual education while conservatives favor official English.

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Students should learn multiple languages anyway

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Hence the old joke: "What do you call a person who only knows one language? American"

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It's a waste of money

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Does it Matter? They need to be educated!

...get 'er done It is expensive for the school districts since the children are from so many different countries it must be very difficult.

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Canada has a bilingual education system

In schools, we learn both French & English. I think with Globalization swarming all around us, it's a good idea to know a least 2 ... [show more]

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English should be the only required language to learn

But I think people should have the opportunity to learn other languages if they choose... and anyone living in America should know English. Period.

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Teach in English only, but teacher should be bilingual.

Total immersion is effective. But school would seem friendlier if teachers could speak the student's language outside of class.

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I don't care either way

Maybe I would if I were bilingual but it doesn't affect me enough to have an opinion

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Sam 2 years ago

The United States doesn't have an official language, and doesn't need one.

Look at this article about the problems that France has with it's language policy: http://en.wikipedia....icy_in_France

An official language wouldn't solve anything, it'd just make things worse.

P.S. it would get exacerbated by the multitude of dialects. Imagine Trent Lott & Ted Kennedy trying to argue over official punctuation.

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MarvelKnight 2 years ago

Canada has 2 official languages and we do not teach either to the extent they should be. In Quebec they do not learn enough english in the rural areas. In the rest of Canada we do not teach enough french.

It is a sad state. :(

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uewebawo 2 years ago

Does RISC count as a second language?

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Skrrrriti 9 months ago

Sure, it saves money
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