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NYC Public School Mandates Arabic for All Elementary Students | TheBlaze.com
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NYC Public School Mandates Arabic for All Elementary Students | TheBlaze.com
NYC Public School Mandates Arabic Language Studies for All 2nd Through 5th Graders
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ToddR
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Yes, and your child doesn't go to this school unless you WANT them to. The parents association was consulted and apparently didn't object.
No biggie. My child wouldn't go to any elementary school that MANDATED a foreign language of any sort.
Blacksheep
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New York has a very short memory. They would rather appease the enemy than confront evil. Our Country is going down fast under the pretense of being "fair". The silent majority needs to get vocal and get rid of those that do not respect the Constitution.
araczynski
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that's the stupidest thing ever. they should be requiring everyone to learn chinese though, we should welcome our soon to be new corporate overlords properly 
Bill Cavalieri
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I would pull my kids from that school.
eagleeyes
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i pulled my son from a christian academy when he was in 2nd grade
my son wanted to shave his head and i let him being he done already shaved most of it on his own so i finished it and left a tail which he wanted and the teacher cut his tail off
that wasn't the only incident which made me make my decision to pull him another incident where a kid stabbed my son in the hand with lead pencil and my son socked him they wanted to suspend my son for defending himself i told the principal and his teacher that turning the other cheek stuff don't go over well with me i'm not going to teach my son to allow other students to do things like that to him without him at least trying to defend himself they didn't like my answer which was when i finally decided to pull him
then another thing where they were teaching the kids in 2nd grade some bible stories i felt were not appropriate material a kid his age should even be hearing about just yet at his age .......
so i pulled him out put him in the public school which was much closer and free too and never regretted doing so either
my son wanted to shave his head and i let him being he done already shaved most of it on his own so i finished it and left a tail which he wanted and the teacher cut his tail off
that wasn't the only incident which made me make my decision to pull him another incident where a kid stabbed my son in the hand with lead pencil and my son socked him they wanted to suspend my son for defending himself i told the principal and his teacher that turning the other cheek stuff don't go over well with me i'm not going to teach my son to allow other students to do things like that to him without him at least trying to defend himself they didn't like my answer which was when i finally decided to pull him
then another thing where they were teaching the kids in 2nd grade some bible stories i felt were not appropriate material a kid his age should even be hearing about just yet at his age .......
so i pulled him out put him in the public school which was much closer and free too and never regretted doing so either
Tucker's Mom
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What the hell are these teachers talking about????@#$%^&&**?? They must remember that these kids, even if they can speak or even understand that language are still infidels!!! When we were young i came home and told my elders that I want to learn latin. Their reply was "What the heck for? It is a dead language." So I said "I like the language of the dead..." :biggrin: Anyway, that was the end of that. I did not get what I want. :sarcastic:
My young son took up Thai, the youngest one took up Froggy (French) and Einbecker Ur-Bock (German). Eldest son is wiser...he took up Java (not coffee, programming.) :smile: If one of my kids decided to learn Arabic, they better not tell me or they will have to borrow a face from a momkey. I am serious! and they know it too.
@Tucker's Mom - Your comment about Java made me chuckle as very few people understand that Java, Basic, Fortran etc. are actually languages that you use to "talk" to computers. Years ago I taught computer programming and every now and then I would get a question such as "Can you program a computer in a language other than English". I would have to explain that one did not use English to program computers but some other language. In fact after all was done everything was translated into 1's and 0's which was the only thing that the computer understood and that was questionable whether it was actually a 1 or just an electrical pulse.
Like your son the only foreign language I ever studied were computer languages. I made it though college with an engineering degree and I would be very hesitant to have my children attend a school that required Arabic language studies. As someone who had lived over there for a good while told me that many of the sounds that are required for proper Arabic pronunciation are formed in such a way using the throat and mouth that most Americans would never be able to speak it unless started at a very early age. If they are going to require a second language make it a useful one like Spanish or as someone said Chinese. The problem with Chinese is which one of the over 1,000 dialects to teach.
Like your son the only foreign language I ever studied were computer languages. I made it though college with an engineering degree and I would be very hesitant to have my children attend a school that required Arabic language studies. As someone who had lived over there for a good while told me that many of the sounds that are required for proper Arabic pronunciation are formed in such a way using the throat and mouth that most Americans would never be able to speak it unless started at a very early age. If they are going to require a second language make it a useful one like Spanish or as someone said Chinese. The problem with Chinese is which one of the over 1,000 dialects to teach.
Tucker's Mom
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@FN ...I taught my son how to be computer literate...I put together his first computer when he was in Year 10 and that of some of his friends too. I am more hardware and he is software and programming stuff. Year 10 is when they prepare kids in Australia what to take up in college. I gave my opinion that he should take up Computer Science because he was good at it. He went against my wishes so to spite me, he took up Biological Science instead. By the time he was taking his doctorate, I asked him if he will just be that -- a dole bludger -- because that was what he is good at -- studying. Anyway, during that conversation, he let me finished my ranting at him then he quietly said, he got a loan from the government and will start taking up IT. He did. Along the way, he learned to hack into my computer too...silly boy! Halfway through the year he started looking for a job. He was employed by IBM Australia as a programmer. Apparently he was taking up other computer languages besides IT. Two years later he was snatched by a government company from IBM. He is now married, earning 6 figures, bought a block of land a year ago to build a house and next month they will be handed the key to their new house. I think he is doing very well especially with two of them earning 6 figures each, they should be.
We lived in Saudi Arabia for 6 months when hubby was assigned to Saudia Air Lines as an instructor. He accepted the assignment because he heard that the trainer planes everyone in our flying club was wanting to find was right there in SA. We tried to learn Arabic but it was pointless because our Muslim friends were laughing at us. It is a very hard language to learn and there is no point learning a language if you are not going to live there. But I can say I can read Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hakka and Korean (which I do..) I will never speak like a native because I had not lived in those countries. Reading these kinds of languages is easy because they have the same characters though different interpretations. At least the Japanese and the Chinese nor the Koreans have no more inclination to kill us unlike the Muslims...
BC1
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I took Spanish. I figured 5 million Puerto Ricans in NYC spoke it... how hard could it be? ;-)
No insult intended. One of ny best friends is Cuban.
BC1
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Interesting story. I have an MSCS in Comp Science as does my wife (see my profile). Great career. Big salaries but long hours. Very stressful and deadline oriented. Everyone wants everything yesterday. Spent six years as a V.P. at IBM in NY. Paradigm shifts in the industry from mainframe to client/server and then eventually internet/intranet apps wreaked havoc on IT professionals. It was cheaper to replace employees than retrain them. The learning curve never ends. Eventually put my efforts into finding and funding internet upstarts and companies in peril who needed an influx of cash and IT to survive. Lot's of success but lots of losses too. Retired at 45. Firearm training is more of a hobby than work for me. I wish your son great success. BTW: He should buy the bargain pack of Tums and Zantac.
Tucker's Mom
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You can tell me about long hours again!!! He takes his work home most of the time. Remember that time when it is cheaper to employ programmers from India? Sonny boy was still in IBM then and though he hated it, he has to give his codes to these Indians because no matter if he made those codes, it belongs to the company. He ended up teaching those Indians to the point that he never knew then whether he will still have a job the next month or not. At that time, he used to have several clients for IBM and that petered down to two clients towards the end. Yes, it was cheaper to hire Indians than keep the experienced and hard-working employees. But God wasn't asleep though...he was snatched by a government company who offered him a bigger salary. Now everything is good with him. Now if only he can get on and give us a grandchild, it will be nice. It's taking too long that his dad asked if he doesn't know how to make a baby, does he want a demonstration...:lol:
This is typical bleeding heart liberalism. We must show our enemy sympathy by teaching our children their language. That way we can understand their plight better. Listen up bleeding heart liberals. The people that speak Aerobic hate us. They are taught from birth to hate us. Their religion requires them to hate us. Their God requires them to hate us. What part of that are you having trouble getting your arms around. Education is the only hope of waking these people up. Lowering us to their level will not work. Once more people learn to put the hate they are indoctrinated with behind them and they out number the fanatics that insist on living in the past, there can be some hope of peace.
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