English and graduation

[KELLEN]

There is a debate about high school graduates not
having to know English. I think America is an English based
culture(outside of parts of Maine, Louisiana, some Mexican areas that
have always been Mexican, and counties of Pennsylvania). So I
think English is mandatory for students to learn and know how to
speak. An American diploma holder has to be able to get by in
America. However, I think people should be allowed to study at
schools in their primary language and take English as a class so they
can learn enough to speak it fluently.

The USA has no official language.

[Wolfram]

There is a debate about high school graduates not having to know English. I think America is an English based culture(outside of parts of Maine, Louisiana, some Mexican areas that have always been Mexican, and counties of Pennsylvania). So I think English is mandatory for students to learn and know how to speak. An American diploma holder has to be able to get by in America. However, I think people should be allowed to study at schools in their primary language and take English as a class so they can learn enough to speak it fluently.
The USA has no official language.



This is another symptom of the growing Balkanization of America.


We have seen the old Habsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary fall apart, and even a further disintegration of its former parts into Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia. Problems in Belgium between Fleming and Walloon, problems in the former Soviet Union, etc.


Someone once wrote that history is merely a record of failed experiments; George Bernard Shaw put it even better when he wrote, "if history repeats itself, and always the unexpected happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"