Originally Posted by Bodhisattva

Any parent that deserves to be a parent for another day to their kids is aware of what goes on at their kids school. Apathetic parenting is no excuuse to blame the school. My daughter came home saying words in another language the other day, there are two main languages here, so I figured it out quick... but the point is that I actually talked to her and found out what they were doing and BINGO! I was an informed parent.



The USA has never been just an English speaking country. Since day one, there have been hundreds of languages, and if you take out Natives, there were still languages from dozens of immigrant groups that started out and have maintained their unique culture and language indefinitely. They never learned English because they didn't have to. Many were treated like slaves, and after a generation or two, they assimilated just nicely anyway. It was the racist white people and the continued racism of white people that has led to this "America is an English speaking country" idea. BTW, I am not calling you racist, it is just a notion of racism that has permeated the mainstream ideologue since nobody seems to bother to find out why other people don't speak English.

Parts of this country and it's natives were speaking Spanish loooong before the English even arrived. The Russians were on the West Coast too. The French were all over the heartland of America as well.

French
Spanish
Chinese
Polish
Irish
Germans
Swedes
Italians
Vietnamese
Thai
Indian
Laotian
Japanese
French
Arab

Etc Etc Etc

Ever gone to Chinatown?
Ever gone to Little Saigon?
Ever gone to Litte Italy?
Ever gone to The Latin Quarter?

To try and go back in order to rewrite history or to have some false hope that everybody in America should be speaking English is not realistic or honest.