¡Esto está loco!

[black roadster]

Here is a lawsuit ready to happen.

Kid suspended from school for speaking Spanish to another kid in the hallway while on break.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10372148/

... y para fuera de los amigos de habla hispana,

aquÃ* está un pleito listo suceder.

El cabrito suspendió de la escuela para el español de discurso a otro cabrito en el vestÃ*bulo mientras que en rotura.

[altiain]

That's ridiculous. That would never fly here - almost 1/3 of my wife's classroom are ESL students, and more than a couple of those are recent immigrants with little or no English at all.

Secondly, while I firmly believe that immigrants should take it upon themselves to learn English in order to effectively integrate themselves into American society (umm.. if I moved to Germany I'd want to learn German, only seems natural that if you move to the US you'd want to learn English), I don't think anyone should be forbidden from speaking their native tongue when and where they choose, so long as the things they say meet the same requirements for decency that they would need to meet in that context if they were spoken in English.

[Sharpie]

That's ridiculous. What were they thinking?

[channelmaniac]

Totally nuts... Yes, the Hispanic population needs to learn English - but that suspension is overbearing and smacks of someone that is very controlling.

[Treibenschnell]

Totally nuts... Yes, the Hispanic population needs to learn English - but that suspension is overbearing and smacks of someone that is very controlling.

Agreed.

[rx7gslse]

hmm... I do think that seems just a *bit* excessive...

Of course, this from the same state that brought us the many arguements on the policys of creation...

I'm glad I left :)


of course, now I *have* to speak spanish???