Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
38% Spanish. What of the other 62% that were left clueless to the address? They didn't earn a right to understand an address at THEIR graduation?
A) Is there some law prohibiting them from learning Spanish?
B) Don't know about you, but the Valedictorian speech at my graduation was given in English, and I can't remember a single thing about it. It could have just as well been given in Arabic or Ancient Greek.
How about deliver the address in Farsi and tell the hispanics there's no law prohibiting them from learning Farsi and...
Or they could ask their Spanish speaking peers what was said - but that would require white people talking to brown people, and we can't mix the races like that.....they should have if they wanted to understand what was said
FTR - The article cites those percentages as all of California, not as the percentage of the class hearing the speech... A simple resolution was suggested in the article that bi-lingual written copies of the speech should have been provided, thus all would have been invited to understand his speech to the class.
As much as conservatives would like it, we have no official language. The kid earned valedictorian and in this country is free to give his address in the language of his choice
yes, becasue having a common tongue is like stupid or something....
FTR - The article cites those percentages as all of California, not as the percentage of the class hearing the speech... A simple resolution was suggested in the article that bi-lingual written copies of the speech should have been provided, thus all would have been invited to understand his speech to the class.
What a great AFTER-THE-FACT solution. Don't Valedictorians know they are supposed to subject their speech to national scrutiny BEFORE its read?
just another leadership fail...
It is an incentive for English speaking kids to work harder
Oh no, the solution has been proposed and it is a good one.
All of those in the audience who did not understand what was said should have had a translator translating at the exact same time the speaker was speaking! Or, just loudly said 'What did you say?" after every sentence.
Lovely. What we really want is a polyglot where no one understands what anyone else has to say.
Just because a student may have been forced into spanish classes doesn't mean they have lost their right to speak English.
It is an incentive for English speaking kids to work harder
Because it's important to make yourself understood to the gardener.
Immigration benefits both political parties, Republicans for cheap labor, Democrats for future votes. America, maybe as many countries, has always wanted "cheap labor," first it was slaves, and indentured servants, then immigrants, and when the Irish stopped coming the country reached out to other areas of cheap labor, all the time lamenting and wailing about the types people coming into the United States, seems they weren't American and didn't even speak English.
Or they could ask their Spanish speaking peers what was said - but that would require white people talking to brown people, and we can't mix the races like that.
Immigration benefits both political parties, Republicans for cheap labor, Democrats for future votes. America, maybe as many countries, has always wanted "cheap labor," first it was slaves, and indentured servants, then immigrants, and when the Irish stopped coming the country reached out to other areas of cheap labor, all the time lamenting and wailing about the types people coming into the United States, seems they weren't American and didn't even speak English.
Ok, your 'he can say anything he wants' argument is simply not logical (neither is the "there are bigger things to worry about" bit). Leaving that aside, you don't find any problem with an AMERICAN high school commencement speech being given in Spanish or the fact that a portion of the audience would have to be expected not to understand what he was saying? Before you get all bent out of shape, I'm just posing the question, not pushing any one conclusion.
Immigration benefits both political parties, Republicans for cheap labor, Democrats for future votes. America, maybe as many countries, has always wanted "cheap labor," first it was slaves, and indentured servants, then immigrants, and when the Irish stopped coming the country reached out to other areas of cheap labor, all the time lamenting and wailing about the types people coming into the United States, seems they weren't American and didn't even speak English.
This is not about immigration. You've got the wrong thread.
As much as conservatives would like it, we have no official language. The kid earned valedictorian and in this country is free to give his address in the language of his choice
yes, becasue having a common tongue is like stupid or something....
Having a common language does not mean you attempt to bar the speaking of other languages.
It is an incentive for English speaking kids to work harder
oh so now you are advocating for english speakers to learn Spanish but not for spanish speakers to learn english, god you're just to much.
