Politics
Puerto Rican official: Tie funding to English classes
By Eric Pfeiffer
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 13, 2007
Congress should cut off funds to Puerto Rico if its school system refuses to teach English as well as Spanish, the U.S. territory's Senate president said during a visit to generate congressional support for making the island a state.
"All federal appropriations should be conditional," said Puerto Rican Senate President Kenneth McClintock, a Democrat. "Otherwise, it's going to cost generations of Puerto Rican families."
Mr. McClintock says some of Puerto Rico's public schools are refusing to teach English, which shares official-language status with Spanish, and that millions of dollars in U.S. appropriations spent on supplemental material has been wasted.
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1 comment:
Hi:
While reading about Mr. Kenneth Mcklintock I realize that he shares very little with the native population in Puerto Rico. He feels that the U.S. should cut off funding to Public schools because of their negligence for not teaching English.
He is the product of a mixed marriage. His father is an Architect from Texas (anglosaxon) and his mother is Puertorrican. It seems that in his quest for promoting statehood he will go to whatever lengths to destroy the legacy inhereted from the first colonizer, (Spain). If he is so concerned for Puerto Rico he should show some respect for my country and our History (514 years of slavery). The colonization of a Nation and its people is the most inhumane act committed by any superpower.
On November 23, 1897 the Spanish government issued a Letter of Autonomy to the people of Puerto Rico. We would have been a free people soon after the letter. Then on February 12, 1898 the United States of America waged war on Spain, using the sinking of the USS Maine as a pretext for invading the Carribbean Islands and expanding imperialism.
I have to agree with Mr. Mcklintock. The U.S. should cut off funding to the public schools if they do not teach Inglish. Being a native of many generations I do not wish to stop talking the language that my people inherited from our fisrt colonizer. It seems that politicians in Puerto Rico have nothing better to do with their free time except continue to undermine the integrity of our nation. What he should do with tax payers money is to promote the Decolonization of my country so that we can become a pruductive country and less dependendant on the U.S.
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