Originally posted by Rolex
Learning another language is not going to hurt you or your kids. They need to learn how to learn. Are you going to complain about kids being exposed to music and literature too? .
The objection is to the method. Second Language as a classroom course (even required) is just fine ~ but the BS idea of 'let's speak spanish in the hallways on tuesdays & thursdays' and think it's doing anything effective is a crock of sheet. In fact, they know full & well that it's not any effective movement toward teaching the english-speaking children the second language of spanish ~ that was never the intent. The intent was actually just to make sure that 'everyone feels included.'
Don't misunderstand this gesture on the part of that school ~ they aren't trying to do any effective teaching. They just want to make sure nobody's feelings are hurt. They now have something they can check the block in to say 'oh... well.... we did our part by making an effort.' If there was a serious effort on the part of the school, they'd have required spanish for one course period each school day. Until then, they're pissing into the wind... and they already know it. They just think their students/parents are too stupid to figure that out, so they're going with the 'oh, look what a great thing we're doing' route.
*edit* as for the music and literature ~ those are the true serious efforts to teach the children... for which they correctly dedicated classroom time to. Which is how they'd do it for each second language if that were a true effort to teach a second language.
