Posted by
sweiserwendel on Friday, November 30, 2007 2:06:39 PM
Today's Lying Anti-american Times featured a rosy headline about how the children of illegal immigrants are learning English at a record clip. Imagine my surprise (not) when, while driving to my job as an ESL teacher in the public schools, I heard Laura Ingraham report that nearly identical articles had appeared in the NY Times and the Washington Post. I don't hold with conspiracists, but this is an awfully interesting coincidence.
For the record, immigrants' children are speaking English fairly well. Reading and writing, however, is another story. That's where I come in ... peddling not only nouns, verbs, adjectives, and the present perfect tense, but the idea that America is something other than the hellhole their history teachers describe. Yesterday a student asked me what a "Senate" was. He can tell you all about why the war in Iraq is "wrong" -- he's been taught that -- but no one before me had ever told him about the three branches of government.