The flow of history
Posted By Chad Jones in Square Pegs on September 4, 2007
September 4, 1957: The desegregation of U.S. schools begins when nine African American students attempt to enter Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas for their first day of class. They are denied entry by the Arkansas National Guard.
September 4, 2007: Sixty students show up for the first day of classes at New York's very first Arabic-language school. They are escorted into the school by the NYPD.
Jeremy Dunck, says:
Try to imagine a dedicated Arabic language school here. Now try to imagine it not mattering any more.
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Scott Miller, says:
"Push one for English, two for Spanish, three for Arabic"
Now that wouldn't piss anyone off, would it?
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jefmelch, says:
Y'know, I'm just a whitebread country kid from the remote sticks, but I wonder. How many generations of U.S. Jews learned to speak and write Hebrew without one dime of taxpayer money being spent to fund a public school and/or escort the kids back and forth to that school?
I had the impression, no doubt false, that once upon a time such kids grew up speaking some weird form of German or Yiddish or Polish or or or in their ghetto tenament apartments and had to learn English Monday thru Friday and Hebrew on Saturday.
Then faced huge high stakes standardized testing with the New York Regents Exams when they were trying to graduate those English-only schools.
How did such an oppressed minority-language group manage to survive in such a hostile environment? Much less ever send one of their kids to law or medical school?
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