Texas wants to rewrite the US History books

I agree with this to a point. Right now, spanish is the obvious choice for a second language, but what happens when another demographic surpasses the Hispanic population's numbers? It's beyond impractical to have multiple official languages. We've all just received our census forms, imagine getting 10 copies of that in the mail, and the associated administrative and fiscal problem it poses. I don't think anyone (anyone rational, anyway) has any issue with what another person speaks socially, just officially. And I think that learning the official language of the nation you are CHOOSING to join is a small price to pay for the myriad benefits you are granted on day one of your citizenship.
The U.S. being the "melting pot" implies that we are a mishmash of diversity, which is a great thing. But there's no reason we should forgo common sense.

Spanish is maybe the obvious choice as far as population in our own nation goes. The language of business in America will be in English though, at least big business. If I had a child right now I'd probably rather them learn something from Asia or Europe. Sure Spanish might make it easier to communicate with some kids in school, but more business will be with France (nuclear tech) and Asia (everything). Chinese, Japanese, Korean.. those would be some languages to learn.

do you think that freedom from religion is important?

I do

man I've met a lot of home schooled kids and it freaks me out how little they actually know about things.. history, the real world, etc

Completely agree. This story is so pathetic, it's beyond justification.

Top US home-school texts dismiss evolution | Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/2010/03/top-homeschool-texts-dismiss-evolution/)

Is there any country I can go to to escape religion completely? (I know, china, I know) My biggest beef with US is how much control these small minded religious fools have over the government. Legislation based on fairy tales, you gotta love it.

the scandinavian nations are among the world's least religious

Completely agree. This story is so pathetic, it's beyond justification.

Top US home-school texts dismiss evolution | Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/2010/03/top-homeschool-texts-dismiss-evolution/)

haha yeah.. it's crazy

knew plenty of girls that went to Christian Academies as well.. the slanting of their learning is beyond amazing

Who's to say they aren't willing?

And maybe if we had a bilingual education system to begin with it wouldn't be such a problem.
The problem is that people move here but will not learn the language. Yes. people are unwilling or too lazy to learn the language. I have customers that only one person in the family has learned to speak english. My mother-in-law moved from Germany and she learned to speak english because that is our language and she did not expect us to learn Germany.

yeah, government controlled churches

hell a lot of those people would've LOVED the churches controlling the government though

either way, what some people jumped on some boats for shouldn't control what I do now


I believe the real reason why TJ was dropped was because he wrote his own version of the Bible and had a copy the Qur'an. One has to wonder if he was a secret Muslim? Did anyone ever see his birth certificate?

The problem is that people move here but will not learn the language. Yes. people are unwilling or too lazy to learn the language. I have customers that only one person in the family has learned to speak english. My mother-in-law moved from Germany and she learned to speak english because that is our language and she did not expect us to learn Germany.


You have no idea what it takes to learn English, no idea.

Completely agree. This story is so pathetic, it's beyond justification.

Top US home-school texts dismiss evolution | Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/2010/03/top-homeschool-texts-dismiss-evolution/)

Sometimes I get them in classes. They are always the ones going, "What? I've never heard that!" to even the most elementary bits of solid knowledge.

I believe the real reason why TJ was dropped was because he wrote his own version of the Bible and had a copy the Qur'an. One has to wonder if he was a secret Muslim? Did anyone ever see his birth certificate?

I believe he was born in Hawaii but we had better check it out. :)

Sometimes I get them in classes. They are always the ones going, "What? I've never heard that!" to even the most elementary bits of solid knowledge.

Of course, because the answer to every question is "because God made it that way."

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