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Subject: Re: Lessow-Hurley (and presumably, the missing Crawford)

Author:
Mark Roberts

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Date Posted: 06:27:35 02/06/02 Wed

Ditto to the ladies. What I see as the problem is that the only place I have ever heard about the benefits of bilingual education is in these teacher prep classes. I never heard about this stuff when it came up on the ballot. The citizenry of California was reacting to the media hyped "problem" of excessive illegal immigration. Never mind the fact that the people who were coming here illegally were filling a critical niche in the state's economic system (a niche, by the way, which us full citizens are "too good" to fill for ourselves), but the fact is that the state constitution says that every child of school age WILL be educated here. The result is subtractive rather than additive and we see the results of that in the many studies that have been cited in the book. My question is this: Why aren't the people of California being fully informed about the constitutional (or ed. code... whatever) requirement and the benefits to THEIR children of expanding bilingual education, primarily two-way? I would hope that they would feel swindled by the anti-bilingual propositions that have passed, props that I, regrettably, voted for.

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Re: Lessow-Hurley (and presumably, the missing Crawford)	Dennis Masur	15:08:01 02/18/02 Mon