I asked Grok - How many languages are used in the chicago public school system? It said 150!!

[1srelluc]

Don't take this the wrong way OP as I catch myself doing the same thing but it would be fine with me if opening posts that use AI as a source would become a banable offense here.

 

[JoeB131]

That's FOUR languages - all somewhat related - in a tiny country.
150 doesn't equal 4.
Do the math.

4 languages in a tiny country of 8 million.

Seems to work just fine.

Heck, if anything, being able to speak the same language is probably less important.

My wife speaks very little English.
I speak very little Mandarin.

Yet oddly, we are able to live in the same house, using Google Translate and WeChat to communicate.

 

[Lockback]

4 languages in a tiny country of 8 million.

Seems to work just fine.

Heck, if anything, being able to speak the same language is probably less important.

My wife speaks very little English.
I speak very little Mandarin.

Yet oddly, we are able to live in the same house, using Google Translate and WeChat to communicate.

Okay, I'll type what I wrote before more slowly so you can
That's FOUR languages - all somewhat related - in a tiny country.
150 doesn't equal 4.
Do the math.
We have 360,000,000 in our country and 150 languages. That is simply unworkable. You have a society that breaks down into splinter groups by language and culture rather than one common language. It simply does not work. It's too complex. That's common sense.
And, as I pointed out before, all those languages in Switzerland are somewhat related. That's not the case when you have 150 languages, most of which have absolutely zero commonalities.
it.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

4 languages in a tiny country of 8 million.

Seems to work just fine.

Heck, if anything, being able to speak the same language is probably less important.

My wife speaks very little English.
I speak very little Mandarin.

Yet oddly, we are able to live in the same house, using Google Translate and WeChat to communicate.

4 languages in a tiny country of 8 million.

150 languages in a school system with about 325,000 students.

 

[Zebra]

That's FOUR languages - all somewhat related - in a tiny country.
150 doesn't equal 4.
Do the math.

the German there is a spcial German!

 

[Zincwarrior]

My wife uses sign language with me.

 

[Zincwarrior]

This is so stupid. Mono-lingualism is a wonderful thing for a country to have and we are throwing it away! Only english should be used in public schools unless it's a class actually teaching a foreign language. Here is the complete grok response.

I am confused. It appears from your AI answer that that is what they are doing. From your post:

Over 150 languages are used in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. This reflects the linguistic diversity among students, particularly the more than 70,000 English Learners (ELs), who represent about 25% of the total enrollment. CPS identifies these languages through the Home Language Survey, which asks about languages spoken at home, and supports them via bilingual education, ESL programs, and dual-language instruction. While English is the primary language of instruction, native-language support is available for major home languages like Spanish (the most common), and services extend to over 150 others, including Arabic, Polish, Mandarin, Urdu, and many more, to ensure equitable access.

 

[StatesRightsForever]

And I have no problem with ESL programs with the intent to teach them English.

The real solution is don't let people from third world countries come here. They are very low-IQ and can never learn how to read english.

 

[JoeB131]

Okay, I'll type what I wrote before more slowly so you can
That's FOUR languages - all somewhat related - in a tiny country.
150 doesn't equal 4.
Do the math.
We have 360,000,000 in our country and 150 languages. That is simply unworkable. You have a society that breaks down into splinter groups by language and culture rather than one common language. It simply does not work. It's too complex. That's common sense.
And, as I pointed out before, all those languages in Switzerland are somewhat related. That's not the case when you have 150 languages, most of which have absolutely zero commonalities.
it.

Worked in a plant where we had 150 employees, and management decided they wanted to do a survey of how many languages were spoken by the Employees.

They counted 19 langugages in total, including Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese, Chinese, Visiyan, Khmer, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, and a few others I don't recall.

Guess what. Place worked just fine.

 

[JoeB131]

The real solution is don't let people from third world countries come here. They are very low-IQ and can never learn how to read english.

Depending what ethnicity you are, someone probably said the same about your ancestors.

 

[Lockback]

Worked in a plant where we had 150 employees, and management decided they wanted to do a survey of how many languages were spoken by the Employees.

They counted 19 langugages in total, including Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati, Japanese, Chinese, Visiyan, Khmer, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, and a few others I don't recall.

Guess what. Place worked just fine.

There ya go. Double down. Just keep doubling down and defending one of the stupidest ideas I have ever seen.
Learn ******* ENGLISH, people, if you want to live here.
Period.
No exceptions.
If you wanna speak Swahili at home, fine. I knew a girl whose parents immigrated from Castro's Communist Cuba. At home, they spoke Spanish. But outside the home, they learned English.
That's the way it should be. Learn the goddam language. And 150 languages is about 8 too many.

 

[JoeB131]

There ya go. Double down. Just keep doubling down and defending one of the stupidest ideas I have ever seen.
Learn ******* ENGLISH, people, if you want to live here.
Period.
No exceptions.
If you wanna speak Swahili at home, fine. I knew a girl whose parents immigrated from Castro's Communist Cuba. At home, they spoke Spanish. But outside the home, they learned English.
That's the way it should be. Learn the goddam language. And 150 languages is about 8 too many.

Google Translate.

No one has to learn a language anymore.

Another generation, we'll all have Universal Translators like Star Trek.

 

[Lockback]

Google Translate.

No one has to learn a language anymore.

Another generation, we'll all have Universal Translators like Star Trek.

In other words, you have absolutely no standards for America.
Got it.

 

[JoeB131]

In other words, you have absolutely no standards for America.
Got it.

No, I just don't define America by her language. (Which isn't even a language we invented.)

 

[Lockback]

No, I just don't define America by her language. (Which isn't even a language we invented.)

English was the language of our Founding Fathers. They didn't write the Declaration of Indepence in Swahili or Greek.
We are an English speaking country, as we should be. You can deny it all you like but you're just plain wrong.

 

[StatesRightsForever]

Google Translate.

No one has to learn a language anymore.

Another generation, we'll all have Universal Translators like Star Trek.

More like 5 years.

 

[JoeB131]

English was the language of our Founding Fathers. They didn't write the Declaration of Indepence in Swahili or Greek.
We are an English speaking country, as we should be. You can deny it all you like but you're just plain wrong.

The Founding Slave Rapists weren't gods. They didn't shit marble.

They were just dudes.

 

[Lockback]

The Founding Slave Rapists weren't gods. They didn't shit marble.

They were just dudes.

No they weren't, fuckstick. They were geniuses, some of the brightest men to ever live. And imagine that they all came together at the same place at the same time.
You, of course, are an ungrateful shit stain, so why don't you leave my country?
I'll help you pack.

 

[JoeB131]

No they weren't, fuckstick. They were geniuses, some of the brightest men to ever live. And imagine that they all came together at the same place at the same time.
You, of course, are an ungrateful shit stain, so why don't you leave my country?
I'll help you pack.

They were morons and hypocrites.

"All men are created equal. Now pardon me while I go home and whip my slaves for not working hard enough."

IF they had lost, we'd all be Canadians today. It just doesn't sound that horrifying.

 

[JoeB131]

our staggering ignorance of history is duly noted.
The battle within the colonies regarding slavery has been well documented but, of course, you're too stupid to know about it or appreciate the compromises that had to be made to stitch together a new nation.

Bullshit, one of the main reasons why the slave-rapists revolted was that they saw the British Empire was in the process of abolishing slavery, and they'd take their slaves away. Oh, yeah, and they didn't want to pay taxes for a war they started with France and the First Nations.

You're an ungrateful little prick who has no appreciation for the greatness of this country.

What greatness? Slavery, Genocide of the First Nations, and exploitation of immigrant labor. If you are reading history to feel good, you aren't reading history, you are reading propaganda.

We are a fading empire unable to save itself, electing a degenerate insult comedian because we can't make the hard choices.

We had it right for a while, after the New Deal, but Republicans have managed to **** that up, starting with Ronnie Ray-Gun.

If indeed you live here, I hope to hell you get out of here and leave it to people who appreciate and want to preserve it rather than trash it.

Except your side is the one trashing it.

You see, we used to have a vibrant middle class, with strong unions and a government that backed workers over investors. Not so much anymore.

But instead of blaming the investor class for your woes, you blame immigrants, feminists, etc.