A side note, yet VERY aplicable...
Currently I am taking a new course offered at WSU called English Language Learners (ED 330). Tonight, we discussed highly controversial issues, including mandating English in the United States, the importance of bilingual education, and the differences that set English speakers and "others" apart. Some interesting questions posed during discussion were:
Does not having a common language inhibit integration?
Is our common denominator English?
What challenges are there for immigrants from other countries due to the language barrier?
What is the true definition of literacy?
I do not know all the answers to these questions, but they rang strongly in my ear after leaving the classroom.
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I have many "leads" for you.
Steve Drazkowski, a state rep., proposed an English only bill, which is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It goes against "due process," and is very...unsettling!
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