Re: Bilingualism has ruined Canada but there is still hope.

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:48:59 GMT

mb wrote:
>
> Not such a bad idea.
>
> Asking for fairness? If any language knowledge is required at all, then
> it is only fair that a bilingual country should require at least a
> smattering of one of the languages, along with knowledge of the other.
>
> Here in the US we are watching all these people, in states with huge
> Spanish-speaking populations, who refuse that minimum of civilized
> behavior, i.e. bilingualism, to themselves and to their kids --by
> enacting laws against bilingual education in the most bilingual states.

That which is labeled "bilingual education" is not bilingual education. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net