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Publius
12-09-05, 09:01
Wha?!?

Reading this baffled me. How can speaking Spanish in a hallway be grounds for suspension?

I took two years of Spanish in HS, I am sure that my Spanish teacher would have been delighted to hear casual spanish conversations in the halls.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10372148/
comperroruter
12-09-05, 09:35
I think it is a damn shame when people are punished for speaking the language of their ancestor's, more or less practicing their heritage. Probably some insecure teacher who thought the student's were talking about them. This is really sad.
Lev
12-09-05, 10:11
I agree with comperroruter.....the teaching staff didn't understand the language and therefore saw it as threatening.

Don't they have cultural competency in Kansas????
BoredOutOfMyMind
12-09-05, 20:13
Wha?!?

Reading this baffled me. How can speaking Spanish in a hallway be grounds for suspension?

I took two years of Spanish in HS, I am sure that my Spanish teacher would have been delighted to hear casual spanish conversations in the halls.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10372148/


Do you believe EVERYTHING in the media? Something caused this- time in halls, or length of conversation.
Colemanguy
12-09-05, 20:23
Don't they have cultural competency in Kansas????

Hey now, just because one school in kansas does this doesn't mean anything, when i was in high school, in salina kanas, I knew peopl;e that conversed only in spanish for personal conversations, I am glad you assume if it happens in one school its a problem in all school.
Adrynalyne
12-09-05, 20:39
Do you believe EVERYTHING in the media? Something caused this- time in halls, or length of conversation.

Having gone to a predominately hispanic High School, I agree.

9 times out of 10, they were talking smack, cursing, an so forth.

Thats not using the language of their ancestors or any crap like that.

Thats being a waste of oxygen.


The news media likes to make people look like martyrs. I bet there was more to this than meets the eye.
Just Playin
12-09-05, 23:03
I agree with comperroruter.....the teaching staff didn't understand the language and therefore saw it as threatening.

Don't they have cultural competency in Kansas????They had a problem with it for the same reason the mods and admins here would. It has nothing to do with bigotry and racism.
Lev
12-09-05, 23:20
Gee guys...lighten up. I missed the smiley off! I've worked in schools for years and faced similar problems.

I did not mean to insinuate that 1 school=all schools. I was merely suprised that the reaction to another language was so strong, in a country where it is the second most common language.

I apologize if my posting was misinterpreted and caused anyone offense.
omnihilo
12-09-05, 23:26
Nothing that comes out of Kansas could surprise me at this point.
Sasquatch77
12-10-05, 08:50
The superintendant of that school district called the boy`s parents apologising, as the school has no policy against speaking spanish, and reversed the suspension.
dago
12-10-05, 13:25
o.k m8's, let's start with the basics, there is no language currently
called spanish, although there are many spoken languages in spain,
they are, castillian,basque,gallego,catalan.
the national language is castillian.

regards.
Adrynalyne
12-10-05, 13:40
http://www.mexonline.com/mexico-summary.htm

Here you go, read up on this country.

Allow me to start with the basics too :)

There is a language called Spanish.

:)
Publius
12-10-05, 14:01
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that textbook I studied from was entitled Spanish.
Adrynalyne
12-10-05, 14:08
Nothing that comes out of Kansas could surprise me at this point.

This has to do with a school, not a state.
Halo
12-10-05, 15:01
A few reports of this tread, and a leaning to discrimination to a certain lingo has led to me closing this thread.