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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): Ban Non-English Speakers From Schools Because They ‘Bring Education Down'
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) lashed out at President Barack Obama because refugee children who fled from violence in Central America were being allowed to go to school in the United States, which he asserted was not fair to English speakers. When the president has worked on a strategic plan to deal with ISIS or not maybe he didnt have enough time to think about education, Gohmert quipped to Fox News host Tucker Carlson. But you think about it, he calls it a Dreamers bill, what he proposed, but it is more of a nightmare.
Its not fair to kids that come in and speak only Spanish, throw them in a classroom with English-speaking students. Its unfair to both the English-speaking and to the Spanish-speaking students, he continued. It is not fair. And not only that, Texas is going back, and youve got to speak Spanish to teach English in a school. It is incredible the amount of cost thats being shoved onto the Texas schools. Carlson argued that immigrants who were going to school in the U.S. were part of a scam because some who tried to enroll were people who were pretending to be kids who arent.
Gohmert insisted that the president was thinking only about the foreign students. For students, young kids trying to learn the most they can, and the teacher has to bring the education down to the lowest level, which means were not educating our kids the way they should be, the Tea Party-backed Republican explained. It is a disaster to these schools to have this many surging people coming in, students coming in. It isnt fair the local students, he said. Its not fair to the schools, and we bear the cost of the president dreaming. I think hes daydreaming. I dont think its a Dreamer bill, its a daydreamer. Hes daydreaming while hes playing golf. The answers on the 18th hole. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/02/louie-gohmert-ban-non-english-speakers-from-schools-because-they-bring-education-down/
sgtbenobo
(327 posts)Anyone who has heard Louie Gohmert's word salad speechifying already knows that English is his second language too.
Louie you should go back to school and stay there.
Carry on.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Idiot.
That is also his second language.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)and pushing private religious schools (charters included) are the reason for the decline Mr. Gohmert.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)who think they speak standard English. Look at all those teabagger signs. We waste tons of money trying to teach these morons English. And they have no excuse for not having learned unlike non-native speakers.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I guess he'll never say "enchilada" or "taco" or "Llano Estacado" unless somebody puts a gun to his head.
It's quite useful and Texans have adopted many words in Spanish. We don't even think about it. We used to be a place called "Mexico". What an idiot.
Notice that these rightwingers are obsessed with Spanish speakers. Remember the guy that was confronted last week by a young woman and he said "Oh you speak very good English" and she corrected him and said, "I was born here" and he seemed to be shocked at that. Shocked that there are native-born Hispanics here who speak English as their first language.
Goomer the Tumor is such an idiot that he doesn't know about the huge demand for bilingual education in the schools. Nor does he know that the younger you are, the easier it is to learn more than one language.
I took Spanish long ago back in junior high. I was 10 or 11. It soaked in. I made straight A's. I can almost think in Spanish and can sometimes spout complete sentences if I'm wound up or I've practiced. I've also picked up various phrases in other Romance languages like French and Italian. I will learn a word in Spanish and go back and look up the Latin root, which is always similar.
German, OTOH, baffles me totally. I know English is a Germanic language and a lot of the words are the same, but I still don't get it.
benld74
(9,888 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)or do something in the public interest. That would stun beyond words every liberal or progressive in the USA.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)kids will pick up English?
Paladin
(28,202 posts)tanyev
(42,356 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)edhopper
(33,188 posts)with little opposition. Because he speaks for the voters.
We are truly a FkUp country.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)Republicans must immediately withdraw from all schools.