Our kids is learned good.

Yesterday i purchased a copy of he San Diego Union Tribune, i wanted to do a crossword and check football stats, there is no other reason to purchase this drivel since most US newspapers are just reprints of AP wires or so horribly skewed by the owners politics, that reading the news from them is painful at best. Yesterday got me though. The lead article was about testing in schools. It seems some of our local school districts would like to be able to test kids out in English and Spanish. Now, does that mean that children will have to learn to be bilingual, would the American kids get tested in Spanish and the Mexican kids get tested in English? No, of course not, that would be hard to do and take too much time. the much simpler answer is to have the Mexican kids get tested in Spanish and the American kids tested in English. That will not only make the school boards seem more progressive but, it also helps keep a definite rift between the cultures. I do so hate people who hide their laziness behind a wall of pretend political correctness. I am all for being bilingual, I wish that I was forced to learn another language or two when I was a kid. In the time when I could easily absorb that kind of knowledge and retain it. Instead I am now a mono-linguist that suffers the average amount of trouble ordering tacos that many Americans my age have. This Spanish testing crap is just that, a load of crap. If you are a teacher and your kids don't understand English, it is your job to teach them English. Now I know this will piss some people off but I will say it anyway. If you go to school in American you should have to learn English! That is a point I must set my foot firmly down upon. I can not think of any country in the world wherein you can go to their public schools and not know their language. You have to know yours and learn theirs, not only is that good for you but it is just plain common courtesy. The idea behind the whole Melting pot statement from way back was that people would move here and assimilate into the country, it's not supposed to be the other way around. You can already take your drivers test in four or five non-English languages, which is helpful since all road signs are in English. You know if this passes, our already strained school system will have an even harder time when you have to have classes in the national languages of every country that emigrates to America. This country will just become one big, flat Tower of Babel. Isn't it confusing enough in this country just trying to understand people from the South?