Thread: Students required to live with Hispanic family

Now in order to earn a social work degree from Dalton State College in GA, the student must spend 10 days living with a hispanic family! This is really outrageous!

PS: We have a HUGE number of illegal aliens. Dalton is the only city listed in GA as having a LaRaza office.

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press

Social work program accredited
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

By Erin Fuchs
Dalton Bureau

DALTON, Ga. -- For the past five years, David Boyle has been working to earn accreditation for Dalton State College's fledgling division of social work.

"I was hired to do this program," Dr. Boyle joked, "so it's all my fault."

On Aug. 15, social work students at Dalton State will start classes -- for the first time -- in an accredited bachelor's program. Full accreditation was granted last month.

"It was really reassuring," said senior social work student Adam Barnette. "I'll be the first class that my diploma is under a fully accredited program. That's really cool."

Dalton State's social work program was conceived to serve the shifting demographic in Northwest Georgia, and requirements include Spanish and studies about Hispanic culture. Degree candidates also must live with a Hispanic family for 10 days during the summer.

"It's practically a necessity, but we're the only ones that are actually doing it," Dr. Boyle said, referring to teaching social work students Spanish.

Social work scholar Dr. Freddie Avant, president-elect of the National Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, said Dalton State College's program is unusual.

"It is a very, very unique program," said Dr. Avant, who is familiar with social work programs throughout the country. "There's not many programs that exist in the nation that focus specifically on bilingual education."

Dalton State's bilingual program grew from a 1999 report from the University System of Georgia's Hispanic Task Force that said foreign language classes should be required for social work majors.

"They identified the need for bilingual social workers as a critical, unmet need," Dr. Boyle said.

Evaluators with the accreditation-granting Council on Social Work Education wrote in a 2005 report that Dalton State served the "unique needs of the region" including a "rapidly emerging Latino population."

"The program has developed its mission," the report said.

The mission of serving Hispanics doesn't appeal to all students, Dr. Boyle said. "It screens out some students," he said.

In fact, Michael Fowler, a social work major who graduated this year, said he initially balked at learning Spanish.

When evaluators visited the school during the accreditation process, Mr. Fowler said, they asked the students what they didn't like about the school.

"The biggest complaint was that most of us are adults and are now being told that we must learn Spanish," Mr. Fowler said. "It was just a constant struggle."

But he said Dr. Boyle is like a parent who forces an unpleasant task upon his children because he knows it will benefit them when they grow up.

"Several of my former classmates received jobs before others, because number one, they had a (bachelor's in social work) from Dalton State; and two, they ... had at least a functional understanding of Spanish," Mr. Fowler said.

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Let's keep the catering trucks a rolling!!! Screw American culture and conform to Amexication!

Seems they should be requiring the opposite so they learn what being in America is like.

When are they going to have the guts to DEMAND that those foreigners in the U.S. learn ENGLISH??????

It is disgraceful seeing people interviewd on TV that have been here for years and years and they still speak no English! As far as I'm concerned, anyone who comes to this country and refuses to learn English is trash that should be DEPORTED. Today is not too soon!

I studied spanish in high school as an "elective." But I get so sick of hearing it, I could puke.

The continuation of the Latinization of America....

I can not print the words I just said reading this pile of horse poop

Don't take the course! They will quit offering it.

Also, many Spanish speakers take Spanish for and easy credit.

Dixie

Originally Posted by NCByrd

When are they going to have the guts to DEMAND that those foreigners in the U.S. learn ENGLISH??????

It is disgraceful seeing people interviewd on TV that have been here for years and years and they still speak no English! As far as I'm concerned, anyone who comes to this country and refuses to learn English is trash that should be DEPORTED. Today is not too soon!

I studied spanish in high school as an "elective." But I get so sick of hearing it, I could puke.

Illegals bother me period and it isn't really the fact that those who are citizens don't speak English - it is the fact they expect us to accomodate them.

Many of these people can speak English quite well - they just aren't going to do it. This isn't new either and it isn't limited to illegals.

Next you'll have to be a member of LaRaza or some other organization.

Why must it be a Hispanic family. Is that the only nationality that needs social services in this country?

It's bad enough that our taxes are supporting 20M illegals and millions of amnestized illegals....but this bilingual crap has to stop!!!! I learned a smattering of Spanish in high school ONLY for travel purposes! Never in my wildest dreams could I envision MY country REQUIRING Spanish for practically every job! This is un-American and anti-American and I am sooo disgusted! I will NEVER capitulate to Mexico!