I applaud the guys quoted in the story for learning english on his own and taking the litercay classes. Good for him, thats a classic American immigrant story.
However I hold the most unpleasent hateful ill will towards the left wing morons, mexican illegal immigration apologits, usa hating la raza racists, teachers unions, left wing chicano politicians, et cetera for ever imposing and still fighting to maintain the ignorant evil of biliungual education on the state of califirnia. This is a process that trades a childs future for some bizzare notion of cultural self esteem and, of course, to satisfy the whims of the grups mentined above.
So in clonclusion:
IF YOU WANT TO LIVE AND WORK IN AMERICA LEARN TO SPEAK, READ AND WRITE Golly-geeNED ENGLIGH!!!
As an immigrant myself trust me when I say that its not hard at all to learn basic english - for everyone - and especially so for younger people...