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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Spanky
Funny, I think it is obvious so you are the one that might try and give more than ten seconds of thought to this. The law wasn't necessary before because no one ever even thought that English should not be the predominate language. Until recently the idea of a bilengual education wasn't even considered.

But now you have social engineers that think mulitculturalism, as opposed to the melting pot, is the way to go. Until we got rid of it in California by proposition, you could pass the entire way through the California public schools without ever having to learn English.

There is a certain section of the population that thinks that a bilengual United States would be a good thing and many of these progressive thinkers are in positions of power throughout the government and are putting that agenda into policy. They had screwed up the California Public Schools for a while, until that was fixed, but there influence is being felt everywhere. Hence the need for legislation.

I for one think schools should concentrate on teaching proper spelling- at least of English.