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Posted By: Fred C

Education... everytime I bring something up about education people start thinking I'm a racist. I think education in the UNITED STATES should be taught in ENGLISH. The first thing people think is that I'm against Hispanics. Well, I'm not. Our education system isn't just obligated to teaching in only English and Spanish, nooooo, we are supposed to take ALL languages into account and we are supposed to ensure that ALL children are educated equally, regardless of their native language. I'm sorry, we spend a lot of money bending over backwards teaching kids in all languages. It's pathetic. You have the English language learners pulling down those that are fluent in English. The teachers cannot progress past the point of the slowest learners, else those not proficient in English get left behind. Do you think that if one of our kids went to a public school in France that the school would teach our child in English? Hell no, the kid better know French or be prepared to get left behind.

When we talk about education there are many little points that need to be included. Yes, we as a country, probably spend more per capita on education because we cater to EVERYONE.

I probably said too much already about education. I think a vintage card curriculum should be included in all elementary school lessons. It would teach the kids history (baseball), statistics and economics all in the same class. Oh yeah, do it in ENGLISH.