☞ The council's recommendation to impose a new requirement for schools to teach the history and culture of every immigrant's country of origin is grossly unrealistic. ☜
Um...yeah. The council is an offshoot of Gov. Deval Patrick's Executive Order 503 launching his New Americans Agenda for Massachusetts. I agree wholeheartedly with Rosalie. This is regnant liberalism showing its true colors untethered by common sense, tradition, history, respect for the majority, or fear of ridicule. For just this reason it should make for good Howie Carr fodder for a day or so.~ Rosalie Pedalino Porter, "Put English fluency first," Boston Herald, Saturday, 26 Dec. 2009, p. 16
Rosalie's book Forked Tongue did to bilingualism what Charles Murray's did to welfare to women with dependent children: overwhelmingly demonstrated that good intentions have led to bad results.
I can't resist linking to this review of Murray's book, which helped to change the debate. The review has the stench of familiarity to me: typical liberal roadkill where assertions are made in the absence of examples. That just is simply amazing to me. I mean we teach high-schoolers preparing for the SATs to provide examples for positions they are arguing. It's so basic, yet it often escapes liberals who view themselves as Thomas Sowell has described them, as the anointed. Intentions, however, should never count for more than results. Can you guess why I'm no longer a liberal.
Ultimately the public policy changed with respect to deleterious bilingual education, at least in Calfornia, where Porter's book made headway. Good luck in Massachusetts, which is a state that is beyond repair. I can tell that by how the corrupt liberal state views the Second Amendment, the litmus test for me, which the state's own constitution should protect.
If you're not familiar with bilingual education--the mediocre teaching of students in two languages, when the culture stipulates knowledge of one--it's a concept that quickly breaks down when literally dozens to hundreds of different immigrant groups are present, speaking a bedlam of languages.
It's doubtful we'll have school officials able to speak Azeri, for example, when the CIA is in desperate need of such people.
Is it any wonder California dropped bilingual education? It didn't work and was costing the state millions upon millions, so they finally ended the program and the world didn't come to an end. and so it should be with this multi-culti history crap.