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Written by Ivan at 02 Apr 2003 19:39:33: Re: Let's be fair about this Rood
As an answer to: Let's be fair about this Rood written by Jim at 02 Apr 2003 17:17:08:
>While that may indeed be factual, it is not the fault of the educational system that those 25% have no intention of adopting English as their primary language.
Now, wait, we don't have anywhere near that percentage of residents who have other than English as their primary language. I am pretty confident that even among people identified as "Latino" the majority speak English as their primary tongue. While recent immigrants have been shafted by the fraud of 'bilingual education,' the Anglophone culture still remains overwhelming in size and attraction.
Nonetheless, for the vast majority of functional illiterates here "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."