Thread: English Verus Spanish Battle in Los Angeles

Discord Roils Los Angeles Unified Parent Panel

LA Times, 11/11

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.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...la-home-center

There is a wonderful man named Walter Moore who is running for mayor or Los Angeles. He has a wonderful clip on youtube. He makes a lot of sense and there would be no question of Spanish or English. That is why the immigrants of this country NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED to learn English. With someone like Tony V you will always have that debate. I sure hope that we can elect president with a backbone to stand up to these people. WE also need to petition our government to stop giving money to La Raza.

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

Very sad.

English is THE official language of the United States, period. I know, the government never made an announcement that it was official, but WE KNOW BETTER. If you don't want to speak it, then please get the hell out of the U.S.A.

I think this has become a matter of who has more power.

People who refuse to learn and speak English believe it is their right to speak what ever they want and we can't do anything about it.

They are trying to make Americans powerless in their own country. It is time to do all bussiness in English. If you don't want to learn it, go back to the country that speaks the same language as you do.

Even many Hispanic Americans prefer to speak and prefer to have everything in Spanish for themselves. So it isn't just about they and their illegal amigos not wanting to learn English. Even when they do, they prefer Spanish and hope that someday it will replace English as our national language or at least that we become a bi-lingual nation. Either way it is just another sign of their non-assimilation in our society.

We have to stop catering to them in their native language. This is the U.S. not Latin America and our language is English. Speak your native tongue at home all you want but when out in mainstream USA speak our language.

If you were an immigrant in this country, would you want your group to be designated as the only group too lazy or stupid to learn the language of the U.S.A.? Isn't that what the government is saying when they try to force 200,000,000+ people to learn the language of 40,000,000+?

I just don't understand how it's come to this? Millions and millions of impoverished Mexicans have come into the U.S. illegally, and now they have the audacity...the utter arrogance...to demand that we speak Spanish??? How is this "living in the shadwos"???

I have never witnessed just blatant, bold arrogance in my life. I just hope that someday we can, as a unified country, stand up to these invaders and put them in their place....which is back where they came from!!

This is to be expected of L.A. It is already a part of Mexico, albeit unofficially.