OT – Bilingual Education

[Anonymous]

If knowing Spanish benefits you to get a job working at Robertos or TJ Max, then I won’t dispute that.

Point is, who on earth aspires to those jobs?

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[quote=deadzone]Point is, who on earth aspires to those jobs?[/quote]

Oh I dunno… immigrants? Children of immigrants? Former strawberry pickers? Or maybe native teenagers who are competing with these immigrants for summer or starter jobs? People who are a lot less fortunate than you?

And it’s not just clerks at TJ Max or dudes frying your taquitos. I’m talking high-paid managers at Louis Vuiton, Tiffany, etc. There is a lot of Mexican money coming into places like Fashion Valley, and to turn their money away because “this is ‘Merca and we speak English, damnit!”, well that’s just stupid.

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[quote=deadzone]Point is, who on earth aspires to those jobs?[/quote]

Oh I dunno… immigrants? Children of immigrants? Former strawberry pickers? Or maybe native teenagers who are competing with these immigrants for summer or starter jobs? People who are a lot less fortunate than you?

And it’s not just clerks at TJ Max or dudes frying your taquitos. I’m talking high-paid managers at Louis Vuiton, Tiffany, etc. There is a lot of Mexican money coming into places like Fashion Valley, and to turn their money away because “this is ‘Merca and we speak English, damnit!”, well that’s just stupid.

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[quote=deadzone]Point is, who on earth aspires to those jobs?[/quote]

Oh I dunno… immigrants? Children of immigrants? Former strawberry pickers? Or maybe native teenagers who are competing with these immigrants for summer or starter jobs? People who are a lot less fortunate than you?

And it’s not just clerks at TJ Max or dudes frying your taquitos. I’m talking high-paid managers at Louis Vuiton, Tiffany, etc. There is a lot of Mexican money coming into places like Fashion Valley, and to turn their money away because “this is ‘Merca and we speak English, damnit!”, well that’s just stupid.

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[quote=deadzone]Point is, who on earth aspires to those jobs?[/quote]

Oh I dunno… immigrants? Children of immigrants? Former strawberry pickers? Or maybe native teenagers who are competing with these immigrants for summer or starter jobs? People who are a lot less fortunate than you?

And it’s not just clerks at TJ Max or dudes frying your taquitos. I’m talking high-paid managers at Louis Vuiton, Tiffany, etc. There is a lot of Mexican money coming into places like Fashion Valley, and to turn their money away because “this is ‘Merca and we speak English, damnit!”, well that’s just stupid.

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[quote=deadzone]Point is, who on earth aspires to those jobs?[/quote]

Oh I dunno… immigrants? Children of immigrants? Former strawberry pickers? Or maybe native teenagers who are competing with these immigrants for summer or starter jobs? People who are a lot less fortunate than you?

And it’s not just clerks at TJ Max or dudes frying your taquitos. I’m talking high-paid managers at Louis Vuiton, Tiffany, etc. There is a lot of Mexican money coming into places like Fashion Valley, and to turn their money away because “this is ‘Merca and we speak English, damnit!”, well that’s just stupid.

[Anonymous]

Filtering through the jibberish of your response there was one excellent and relevant point. American teenagers competing for jobs with immigrants. I’ll give you that one.

Other than that, the point of my argument is it is not necessarily beneficial for American children to learn other languages in order to be successful.

If landing a part time after school job at TJ Max is the best example you can give to counter my argument then that is pretty weak.

[Anonymous]

Filtering through the jibberish of your response there was one excellent and relevant point. American teenagers competing for jobs with immigrants. I’ll give you that one.

Other than that, the point of my argument is it is not necessarily beneficial for American children to learn other languages in order to be successful.

If landing a part time after school job at TJ Max is the best example you can give to counter my argument then that is pretty weak.

[Anonymous]

Filtering through the jibberish of your response there was one excellent and relevant point. American teenagers competing for jobs with immigrants. I’ll give you that one.

Other than that, the point of my argument is it is not necessarily beneficial for American children to learn other languages in order to be successful.

If landing a part time after school job at TJ Max is the best example you can give to counter my argument then that is pretty weak.

[Anonymous]

Filtering through the jibberish of your response there was one excellent and relevant point. American teenagers competing for jobs with immigrants. I’ll give you that one.

Other than that, the point of my argument is it is not necessarily beneficial for American children to learn other languages in order to be successful.

If landing a part time after school job at TJ Max is the best example you can give to counter my argument then that is pretty weak.

[Anonymous]

Filtering through the jibberish of your response there was one excellent and relevant point. American teenagers competing for jobs with immigrants. I’ll give you that one.

Other than that, the point of my argument is it is not necessarily beneficial for American children to learn other languages in order to be successful.

If landing a part time after school job at TJ Max is the best example you can give to counter my argument then that is pretty weak.

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Did you read my second paragraph? Do me a favor. Next time you go to Fashion Valley, count the number of BC license plates on $50,000 cars and come back and tell me knowing Spanish isn’t beneficial to a large number of employees in this area.

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Did you read my second paragraph? Do me a favor. Next time you go to Fashion Valley, count the number of BC license plates on $50,000 cars and come back and tell me knowing Spanish isn’t beneficial to a large number of employees in this area.

[afx114]

Did you read my second paragraph? Do me a favor. Next time you go to Fashion Valley, count the number of BC license plates on $50,000 cars and come back and tell me knowing Spanish isn’t beneficial to a large number of employees in this area.

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Did you read my second paragraph? Do me a favor. Next time you go to Fashion Valley, count the number of BC license plates on $50,000 cars and come back and tell me knowing Spanish isn’t beneficial to a large number of employees in this area.

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