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February 25, 2009
California School Spends Fortune Teaching Spanish to Mexicans
A middle school in California is heeding Chairman Zero's call to spend ourselves into national bankruptcy by wasting $10,000 per year to teach Advanced Placement Spanish to colonists who already speak it as their native language.
Teaching kids something they already know improves their self-esteem. Bleats Lemon Grove School District Superintendent Ernie Anastos:
Our goal is basically to provide kids with an opportunity to excel and to feel really satisfied about doing the higher level work.
Another benefit is it pads their grade point averages, making it easier for Hispanics to edge out Gringos for university slots, since openly discriminating against Caucasians is supposed to be off limits in California colleges.
They would teach the kids English, but that might be difficult, subjecting sensitive students to frustration. Besides, there apparently won't be much use for English in the Mexifornia of the future.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 25, 2009 7:10 AM
Comments
Is there any way California can be expelled from the union? Can we build a wall around it?
Posted by: Anonymous at February 25, 2009 7:17 AM
i'm happy to say our son placed 2nd in regionals in spanish AND french and will be going to state - he beat the french teacher's son and a host of hispanics - pretty dayamed good for a child who in kindergarten when asked what nationality he was responded, "i'm native american and irish on my mom's side and hick on my dad's!"
Posted by: nancz at February 25, 2009 7:28 AM
FRUITS & NUTS!
Posted by: TED at February 25, 2009 7:37 AM
If those little mexican brats want to learn spanish let them learn it back in mexico this is most squandering of the money from BRAT OBAMA PORK STIMULUS BILL
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at February 25, 2009 7:40 AM
It's not 10K per student. Check the article and correct that, please.
Posted by: Melvin_Udall at February 25, 2009 8:22 AM
Not really a surprise. "Mexican" Spanish is not formal Spanish, which is even further from the "spanglish" spoken by much of the Hisp/latino community.
Plus, it's 10K/class.
J
Posted by: jess at February 25, 2009 8:42 AM
Melvin, thanks. The error has been fixed.
Posted by: Van Helsing at February 25, 2009 9:19 AM
When do they start Ebonics classes in Detroit? The school system here (Orlando) is $100mil short on it's budget for next year; however, they are spending $90mil on a new school (replacing an old one) in the 95% black/hispanic 'ghetto' because a new school will recieve a better grading. Of course the students will still be just as uneducated, but the grading will be better.
Democrat social improvement plan definition:
Take the water from the deep end of the pool, pour it into the shallow end, repeat.
Posted by: Eric at February 25, 2009 10:15 AM
Yes, but they are probably from the lower classes, otherwise why would they come here for low paying jobs, so they must need to learn to "speak it right."
Posted by: Anonymous at February 25, 2009 1:39 PM
High schools teach Castilian Spanish, not Mexican Spanish. In high school in California decades ago we used to laugh our asses off when Mexicans would flunk Spanish, but actually there was a good reason for it.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 25, 2009 3:20 PM
Good for your family, NANCZ!
Posted by: KHarn at February 25, 2009 4:28 PM
If CA wanted to secede from the Union I don't think very many people would object.
Nor if it fell into the ocean due to a catastrophic quake.
Just sayin'...
Posted by: SK at February 25, 2009 9:42 PM
