Parent Group Wants Elementary Schools to Teach Spanish

This is just ridiculous...

From the Sun Sentinel:

But the school district's Parent Advisory Council wants to change that. It recently asked Superintendent Frank Till to explore adding Spanish to basic elementary lesson plans.

"It does a disservice to our children not to learn the language," said Melissa Izquierdo, mother of two children at Virginia Shuman Young Elementary in Fort Lauderdale. "We need to face the realities of growing up in South Florida."

Till called the idea "something we need to study," particularly as more students enter the school system speaking a primary language other than English.

Each of Broward's middle and high schools offer Spanish as an elective. But parents say they prefer that children learn it sooner.

"Even if it's just conversational Spanish, it's good to start when they're little," said Wendy Frank, parent of a sixth-grader at Sunrise Middle in Fort Lauderdale. "If you're first getting the basics in high school, it's extremely foreign."

Ya know, I know have to add to my illegal immigration reform that English be made the official language of the United States of America. Heck there are other countries making english their official language so why can't we do it?

Public Schools have a hard enough time teaching the basics, there is no reason to teach a foreign language. Not to mention I would refuse to allow my children to be taught spanish. The whole world runs on English and that is good enough for me. Foreign language studies should be left to college, and yes I know they teach them in High School and colleges require a foreign language class. They are WRONG, there is no practical reason for the average person to learn anything but English. I would rather they concentrated on teaching our students MASTERY of the English language than teaching another language. Here is an idea, teach all the Spanish speakers English! Nah, that makes too much sense.

Maybe Public Schools should be ala carte! If you want your kid to learn something, you have to pay for it! I bet there wouldn't be too many foreign language courses being paid for by the parents. Yet they are paying for it now whether they want it or not.

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