Day 2 Trump needs to abolish the Department of Education. Kick it back to the States. Make States Great Again. Competition is good they’ll figure it out when no one is left in Democrat run states
I’m sick and tired of having to decide if I should hear something in English or Spanish. My mother was first generation German. Her parents learned to speak English so they could assimilate.
Why do we cater to Spanish speakers when we didn’t for any other Immigrants?
English only in America. If you can’t speak it, learn it
Have you ever known the elation of having a Spanish-speaking immigrant demand to know why you’ve never learned Spanish? I have. Many times. When I respond by asking them why I would do that, as I live in the USA, it’s fun watching them get flummoxed. Sometimes I follow up with asking what the response would be if I went to their home country and demanded answers about why the natives weren’t all cramming for their English language final. Blank stares. Furrowed brows. Spanish is treated as some kind of exalted, glorified entity. I don’t need it and never have. I would LOVE it if Trump made English the official language. I know a South American woman in a large U.S. city whose husband had a medical emergency. She was shocked and outraged that 911 answered In English, and had a get a translator for her. She COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. The disconnect is astounding. We have Bill Clinton to thank for all the literature at our DMVs being in multiple languages. Thanks Bill. Hey Bill, ask any immigrant to tell you what “YIELD” means, and then ask yourself if you want to be on the road near these clowns.
Yeah - when I used to have to drive from East TX to West TX to visit one of the refineries I either listened to SiriusXM (when I still had it) or my mp3 playlist. Dealing with trying to find some non-mariachi music or some English-speaking talk shows every 30 minutes or so was awful.
Lived in East TX when my youngest was entering preschool. I was stunned when I found one & was told they're only Spanish!! Like huh? He needed speech therapy for English back then (thank u baby vaccinations) so uh that wasn't gonna work!
I was actually looking for a good comment like this before I posted a reply. A foreign-staffed or foreign-speaking preschool is ABSOLUTELY not the place to put an English-speaking child if you don't want to end up putting your child in speech therapy. Once they are a little older then having them learn another language or 5 is great, but at a preschool age they are still developing their mouth movements on English sounds, and settling into their local accents and dialects.
Kids of course can learn multiple languages at early ages, but they could very well end up with a hint of a spanish accent when speaking English. If all of your family is Hispanic that may not be too bad, but most English-speaking people wouldn't want that.
We looked at preschools in Central TX when my youngest daughter was old enough. Almost all of them were staffed by spanish-speaking people. She was already in speech therapy at the time, and her therapist highly recommended we did not put her in that environment until much later because of her speech issues.
One other thing nobody thinks about is culture. If the staff and kids are all spanish then their cultures will likely be different than an English-speaking child's.
100%!! Sorry for the very late reply but yes. It's just ridiculous to have that at that young, in my opinion. They advertised as just some normal preschool ....when I called to inquire, could barely understand the lady's English. Hell no. Thanks to big pharma, my son had stopped speaking for a stint thank GOD he is ok now. Still can't say the letter G
We have similar thing here in UK; in Wales there are many communities who will shut you out if you don't speak Welsh and if you want to get ahead in politics there you can forget about it unless you are a Welsh speaker.
Spanish is a great language for an Anglo-native to learn. The number one factor to the "effort to value ratio" (bang per buck) for learning a language is the number of places you can use it once learnt, and South America is not exactly a small continent.
Ironically considering the thread topic I would even say that exposure to a foreign language for kindergarten age kids is really valuable because the young mind flips that important switch early on knowing that there can be more than one language. Little kids exposed to other languages will have better ability to learn another language (should they wish to) in adulthood. I know because coming from an airforce family I lived at many foreign bases from age 2 and it really helped me later when I ran up against the school curriculum requiring French.
Incidentally if you just don't like Spanish for ideological reasons and want to stay away from it then my guess is being a Russian or Chinese speaker will give you a definite business edge 10 years from now so maybe try that instead.
If you feel capable of teaching abc's and counting - as well as reading numbers, then that's enough to enter primary school. Maybe colors. It's a lot f fun - especially if you teach them some basic cooking, such as making buns or making baked potatoes or something easy. Maybe counting sunflower seeds before planting. I had one kid who knew the names of all the edible plants in the garden at age five.
One trip to the toy store will sort out alphabet and number recognition, Plus there are apps that can amuse and entertain pre-shoolers to learn all the above, in a half-hour a day - if you are inclined to lend them your phone for a minute.
Need to make English our official language and those caught not speaking it, need to be deported to their home country. You want to come to America, learn our fucking language.
Time to make English our official language. Period.
Time to homeschool
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Fortunately, in Indiana, one of our few homeschool requirements is that instruction is in English.
Day 2 Trump needs to abolish the Department of Education. Kick it back to the States. Make States Great Again. Competition is good they’ll figure it out when no one is left in Democrat run states
Ya id homeschool or move out of that beaner town.
I’m sick and tired of having to decide if I should hear something in English or Spanish. My mother was first generation German. Her parents learned to speak English so they could assimilate.
Why do we cater to Spanish speakers when we didn’t for any other Immigrants?
English only in America. If you can’t speak it, learn it
Have you ever known the elation of having a Spanish-speaking immigrant demand to know why you’ve never learned Spanish? I have. Many times. When I respond by asking them why I would do that, as I live in the USA, it’s fun watching them get flummoxed. Sometimes I follow up with asking what the response would be if I went to their home country and demanded answers about why the natives weren’t all cramming for their English language final. Blank stares. Furrowed brows. Spanish is treated as some kind of exalted, glorified entity. I don’t need it and never have. I would LOVE it if Trump made English the official language. I know a South American woman in a large U.S. city whose husband had a medical emergency. She was shocked and outraged that 911 answered In English, and had a get a translator for her. She COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. The disconnect is astounding. We have Bill Clinton to thank for all the literature at our DMVs being in multiple languages. Thanks Bill. Hey Bill, ask any immigrant to tell you what “YIELD” means, and then ask yourself if you want to be on the road near these clowns.
I went to kindergarten in Los Angeles in the 70s. Same thing. It was me and one Chinese kid, the rest only spoke Spanish. Didn't learn a thing.
Yep all my kids classes are 75% Spanish crazy times.
I took a long road trip yesterday in west Texas. I was looking for something on the radio. About half the stations were some yaya shit in Spanish.
This country has been given away while the people sat on their asses watching the jewtube tell them what to think how they are racists.
it has been like that in CA since the 70's.
Yeah - when I used to have to drive from East TX to West TX to visit one of the refineries I either listened to SiriusXM (when I still had it) or my mp3 playlist. Dealing with trying to find some non-mariachi music or some English-speaking talk shows every 30 minutes or so was awful.
Get a lawyer, call it a hate crime!
It’s better to homeschool anyway
Lived in East TX when my youngest was entering preschool. I was stunned when I found one & was told they're only Spanish!! Like huh? He needed speech therapy for English back then (thank u baby vaccinations) so uh that wasn't gonna work!
I was actually looking for a good comment like this before I posted a reply. A foreign-staffed or foreign-speaking preschool is ABSOLUTELY not the place to put an English-speaking child if you don't want to end up putting your child in speech therapy. Once they are a little older then having them learn another language or 5 is great, but at a preschool age they are still developing their mouth movements on English sounds, and settling into their local accents and dialects.
Kids of course can learn multiple languages at early ages, but they could very well end up with a hint of a spanish accent when speaking English. If all of your family is Hispanic that may not be too bad, but most English-speaking people wouldn't want that.
We looked at preschools in Central TX when my youngest daughter was old enough. Almost all of them were staffed by spanish-speaking people. She was already in speech therapy at the time, and her therapist highly recommended we did not put her in that environment until much later because of her speech issues.
One other thing nobody thinks about is culture. If the staff and kids are all spanish then their cultures will likely be different than an English-speaking child's.
100%!! Sorry for the very late reply but yes. It's just ridiculous to have that at that young, in my opinion. They advertised as just some normal preschool ....when I called to inquire, could barely understand the lady's English. Hell no. Thanks to big pharma, my son had stopped speaking for a stint thank GOD he is ok now. Still can't say the letter G
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1832897147874038257
You can thank George Bush for that. I knew he was a traitor when he made Spanish our second language officially.
Borders, language, culture. Mike Savage was right!
It's a shame when languages are weaponised,
We have similar thing here in UK; in Wales there are many communities who will shut you out if you don't speak Welsh and if you want to get ahead in politics there you can forget about it unless you are a Welsh speaker.
Spanish is a great language for an Anglo-native to learn. The number one factor to the "effort to value ratio" (bang per buck) for learning a language is the number of places you can use it once learnt, and South America is not exactly a small continent.
Ironically considering the thread topic I would even say that exposure to a foreign language for kindergarten age kids is really valuable because the young mind flips that important switch early on knowing that there can be more than one language. Little kids exposed to other languages will have better ability to learn another language (should they wish to) in adulthood. I know because coming from an airforce family I lived at many foreign bases from age 2 and it really helped me later when I ran up against the school curriculum requiring French.
Incidentally if you just don't like Spanish for ideological reasons and want to stay away from it then my guess is being a Russian or Chinese speaker will give you a definite business edge 10 years from now so maybe try that instead.
Is this verifiable? I don’t think that’s legal they sure in the hell wouldn’t tell a Spanish speaker they have to get their own translator
TBH al pre-school is, is a baby-sitting service.
If you feel capable of teaching abc's and counting - as well as reading numbers, then that's enough to enter primary school. Maybe colors. It's a lot f fun - especially if you teach them some basic cooking, such as making buns or making baked potatoes or something easy. Maybe counting sunflower seeds before planting. I had one kid who knew the names of all the edible plants in the garden at age five.
One trip to the toy store will sort out alphabet and number recognition, Plus there are apps that can amuse and entertain pre-shoolers to learn all the above, in a half-hour a day - if you are inclined to lend them your phone for a minute.
I feel this picture is relevant: https://files.catbox.moe/sxvya8.jpg
Need to make English our official language and those caught not speaking it, need to be deported to their home country. You want to come to America, learn our fucking language.