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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (6751)	1/12/2005 11:24:41 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 22250

School will teach in Arabic (Denmark) Copenhagen Post ^ \| 12.01.2005 \| A school in Århus plans to conduct classes in Arabic for one-third of the day. Immigrant activists are doubtful of results. An elementary school in Århus plans to teach one-third of the day’s classes in Arabic in a year-long trial program to provide a better education to students with Arabic as their first language. The effort is praised by experts after numerous studies have shown that students with Arabic as a first language are being let down by the education system. "Danish results for these students are nothing to impress the world, and since there are proven methods which do work, it’s my opinion that we have a duty to try them in the public school," says Århus school board member Torben Nielsen. He refers to, among others, a study in the USA of 200,000 students aged 15 who spoke English as a second language. The study showed that those who were educated in their native language as well as English did much better than those who were only educated in English. These results gave inspiration to the Århus trial The trial school has not yet been selected, although one school, Nordgårdskolen, has volunteered to try the method on students. But Rabih Azad-Ahmed, chairman of a local activist group, the Multicultural Organization, warned that the method could isolate bilingual students even further, and bar them from getting further education. "Bilingual students should be with Danish children, they need to learn more Danish, and the schools have to be better at teaching them," Azad-Ahmed, himself an Arabic speaker, told daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Nordgårdskolen´s Principal Sven Schaal said he had been of the same opinion, until he saw the U.S. study´s results. "Teaching Danish just hasn´t helped," he said. "Now, for the first time, we have a method showing that students progress rapidly and become better both in Danish and other subjects. The results are so clear, that I want to try it out on Nordgårdskolen," he said.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (6751)	1/12/2005 12:32:49 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus, There is much gnashing of teeth in the United States and Europe concerning illegal immigration in these two geographical areas. Fair or not, if the Europeans and Americans are so concerned (and bothered to anger and political action), how is it that these same folks miss the point the Palestinians have been making since the arrival of the European Zionists into Palestine since the late 1800s, the exodus from Europe of the potential victims in the 1940s, and the unlimited immigration of world Jewry under the banner of "right of return" and the "Jewish" state? len