'controversy over affirming that English is the official language of the United States'
So we hear ... i'd be against it were it a controversy here, fwiw ... it's an intentional spitting in the face of the speakers of the tongue most spoken in these Américas, and is intended to appear as such .... and, your use of the verb 'to affirm' suggests to me that you are in favour of so doing ... ?
'It is more a symbolic act'
Symbols are big, big big huge, in human experience ... suppose for instance that a piece of cloth was thrown to ground and pissed on, now reflect on the variance in emotion evoked were it a dishrag or your stars 'n stripes
'with modest practical consequences'
... mmm, if that were true, then why bother with such an intense 'symbol'
'A lot of school districts have bent over backwards to provide instruction in the students native language, without pressing for phaseout as the student learns English, for example........ '
Practical considerations must rule each school board, and of course they don't always get it right as soon as we'd like, but they are in the end guided by legislated principle and fueled by money, of which taxes on the hispano forms part, where live and raise children the hispano, and while those children will ultimately be the decision makers, it is generally speaking the wish of the hispano that they not be forced to lose the one language/culture in assimilating to the other |
