"Now just why in the HELL do I have to press '1' for English?"Jason over at the Augusta Water Cooler has a good post up in response to Barack Obama's campaign speech that suggested American students should speak Spanish as opposed to English as a national language.
My two French-speaking sisters would object to that ... one worked in Paris for several years and both have spent time in France studying the country and her people.
I took the Spanish language route myself in high school, mostly because I was told by a guidance counselor that it was the easier foreign language to learn, and I needed a foreign language credit.
Jason writes:
My two French-speaking sisters would object to that ... one worked in Paris for several years and both have spent time in France studying the country and her people.
I took the Spanish language route myself in high school, mostly because I was told by a guidance counselor that it was the easier foreign language to learn, and I needed a foreign language credit.
Jason writes:
For Sen. Obama to suggest that our kids should speak Spanish as opposed to English (as our national language) IS beyond ridiculous. ... If you were a fence sitter on which candidate to back, then this may be the tipper for you.
Obama's comments have left people scratching their heads trying to figure out what this guy is talking about and where he intends to take this country if elected....
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Yeah, McCain said that students should learn courtesy, so that must mean he doesn't want schools to teach reading! How will our students succeed if they don't learn how to read? The desire to teach courtesy shows that McCain wants to control the minds of children instead of helping them acquire skills they will need.
Unless...maybe McCain meant they should learn courtesy in addition to other things they learn; that they should put it higher on their priority list of things to learn. And maybe, just maybe, kids don't have to learn Spanish "as opposed to" English. Maybe they could learn both, and there might be a reason that an American presidential candidate wants students to speak multiple languages in addition to English, like, I don't know, global competitiveness.
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