Thread: English Verus Spanish Battle in Los Angeles

Right now English is losing this battle. About half of the radio stations in LA are non-English. When I was younger I don't remember ANY non-English stations.

If you really want to hear how bad it is, call up the Mexican American Political Association at (323) 269-1575. Their message is in Spanish, after a while they ask you to press 9 for English, then you get more Spanish.

[quote="SicNTiredInSoCal"]I don't understand how speaking the official language of our country has even become a debate.

I agree completely! There should be absolutely NO DEBATE on what language to speak!!! One of the citizenship requirements is to be able to speak and read English and the public schools are for AMERICAN CITIZENS...or so I thought!

I hear from many irate friends who go to their first parent's night at school...and everyone speaks Spanish! There are only a handful of public schools in LA where English is spoken now...it's really sad. And to add insult to injury it's now costing $14,000/student to 'educate' the uneducatable!

Originally Posted by Saki

Many of them in my area don't even speak Spanish. I'm not sure what regional languages they're speaking, but I've noticed that some of them don't seem to understand each other. So you can add that to the mix of future problems to deal with here in the US.

In Mexico about 10% of the population does not speak Spanish, they still speak their Native Indian languages. 500 years after Columbus they have not learned a European language, yet the open borders fanatics want us to think they will assimilate and learn English?

In fact in Santa Maria, CA they have interpreters for one of these Native languages, Mixtec, and they have a Mixtec festival!

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Originally Posted by MadInChicago

[b]Along the same lines of dialing 1 for English, go look at your calendar, what dose it say for November 20th. I found this on 2 of the 3 calendars we have at home. Another one they are sneaking into our everyday life.

Dia De La Revolucion Mexicana.

It's not on my Ronald Reagan calenders. I guess we should stick to calenders like this.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Originally Posted by MadInChicago

[b]Along the same lines of dialing 1 for English, go look at your calendar, what dose it say for November 20th. I found this on 2 of the 3 calendars we have at home. Another one they are sneaking into our everyday life.

Dia De La Revolucion Mexicana.

It's not on my Ronald Reagan calenders. I guess we should stick to calenders like this.

My two at home reads “Mexican Revolution Dayâ€

Originally Posted by redpony353

For months, parents on a Los Angeles Unified School District advisory council have disagreed over whether their meetings should be conducted in Spanish or English.

THIS IS AMERICA SO IT SHOULD BE IN ENGLISH. ANYONE WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH SHOULD LEARN....OR THAT PERSON SHOULD HIRE A TRANSLATOR AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE

How can parents disagree over whether the meeting should be conducted in Spanish or English?! THIS IS AMERICA. ENGLISH IS OUR LANGUAGE - AND SHOULD BE THE ONLY LANGUAGE USED WHILE CONDUCTING BUSINESS, CITY, FEDERAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.
IF PEOPLE WANT TO CONDUCT MEETINGS IN SPANISH, I SUGGEST THEY MOVE TO SOME COUNTRY THAT USES THAT LANGUAGE.

U.S. School Board Meetings Should Be Conducted in English
Monday , November 12, 2007

By John Gibson


The Los Angeles Unified School District, which serves about 700,000 students, is embroiled in a nasty debate about whether meetings of a district advisory board should be conducted in English or Spanish.

I don't have a child in the school district, but let me say this as clearly as I can for the activists wanting to conduct meetings in anything but English: Yo quiero Ingles, por favor.

For the rest of you: I want English, please.

One parent said it was racist to demand people who come to America speak English. I think not.

What's really odd about this debate out in L.A. for many of us is that it is not the usual clash between Anglo-nativists and newly arrived Hispanic immigrants. Instead this is a battle which pits African-Americans against newly arrived Hispanic immigrants. The African-Americans think they are getting ripped off if a key advisory council to the school district is conducting business — dividing up federal money in many cases — in a language they cannot understand.

Some African-American parents have kids in these schools who are underachieving and want to see federal money spent equitably on their children as well as Hispanic children, and they are the ones who are feeling abused if the debates over millions in federal money are conducted in the language of the newcomers.

Nothing against the immigrant parents who want their children properly served by the L.A. school district, but the African-American parents have a point most Americans support: This is an English-speaking country when it comes to official business, and English speakers should not be excluded from participation in school district business because they have not picked up Spanish fast enough.

Their position seems to be: Welcome to America. We speak English. We have classes for everybody to learn English, but that's as far as we'll go.

Seems fair to me.

That's My Word.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,310996,00.html

Their position seems to be: Welcome to America. We speak English. We have classes for everybody to learn English, but that's as far as we'll go.

Should be "case closed".

Originally Posted by butterbean

How can parents disagree over whether the meeting should be conducted in Spanish or English?! THIS IS AMERICA. ENGLISH IS OUR LANGUAGE - AND SHOULD BE THE ONLY LANGUAGE USED WHILE CONDUCTING BUSINESS, CITY, FEDERAL AND STATE AFFAIRS.

Because the ones who want it in Spanish don't think Los Angeles is part of America, they think this is Mexico or Aztlan.

This should not even be open to debate! does anyone have a backbone anymore.....Americans in America speak English....Our Education system should use English!! Is it that hard to understand??


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