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Title: Waunakee parents in 'an uproar' over teaching social studies in Spanish
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Wisconsin State Journal
URL Source: http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/437383
Published: Feb 9, 2009
Author: Gena Kittner
Post Date: 2009-02-10 20:56:14 by X-15
Keywords: Bush, mexico
Views: 320
Comments: 8
Being taught about famous people and events in Wisconsin history in Spanish is not how some Waunakee parents want their fourth-graders learning social studies at school. “We as parents have been in such an uproar over this,” said Keith Wilke about the district’s elementary language program in which students learn Spanish by having the language integrated into social studies lessons for 30 minutes three days a week in first through fourth grades. “They’re force-fed Spanish.” This is the third year for the program, which has added one grade a year since 2006 and is designed to continue until fifth grade. “A fair amount of (social studies instruction) has been in Spanish,” said Wilke, who has a daughter in fourth grade. “The kids are to the point where they don’t understand it.” Concerns over teaching more complex topics in Spanish isn’t a surprise to district leaders and a meeting Thursday has been set to address those issues. “We realized the area that we were going to have the most concern . . . was the fourth grade,” said Randy Guttenberg, district superintendent, who also said that administrators have monitored the fourth-grade program all year. “The content in social studies becomes more complex at that point.” Topics covered during social studies in the younger grades, such as community and family structure, fit well with learning a language, he said. But once students start tackling more specialized topics such as Wisconsin history—including information about landforms—adding a foreign language to the mix can make learning more challenging. {snip} Magnes [Jean Magnes, mother of two children in the district] said because of how the subject has been taught, students aren’t learning Spanish or history. “They don’t enjoy (Spanish), don’t speak it,” she said. {snip} Poster Comment: 
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Concerns over teaching more complex topics in Spanish isn’t a surprise to district leaders and a meeting Thursday has been set to address those issues. And the difference between this an English emersion would be...? Other than the fact that English is the language of this country I mean. I don’t expect immigrant kids to be taught in Spanish but the technique is the same, right?
Just goddamn every one of these social engineers.
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It's Wisconsin, why don't the parents push for lessons in GERMAN or SWEDISH and stick it to the immigrant brats??
_________________________________________________________________________ German is close enough to English that the kids might enjoy it. For what is worth I did encourage my kids to learn Spanish, we do live in CA after all, but it wasn't coerced by the school system. That's just wrong.
We had French in the early grades. It's a great thing to get some other languages when you're young. But you know that the content won't be ideology free. What you have here is another taxpayer funded vehicle.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Oh yes. I totally agree.
Nobody speaks them anymore. Non-Hispanic, non-Jewish whites all lost their ethnic solidarity, to which language is a support, a long time ago. There's some remnant race feeling; I know some Democrat farmers who would never vote for a negro for president. This is the state that produced Golda Meier; it is burdened with the People's Republic of Madison, once the Athens of the Midwest, now going downhill, what with the dark immigrants from Chicago (Dane county's welfare policies are a huge magnet), and, lately, immigrants from Mexico and, um, Russia. My family attends a WELS church, full of Nordics -- almost to the point of inbreeding -- which I kinda like, but they are hopeless. They like mission work in Africa, which is an utter waste of time and money. And in this month's WELS connection (a monthly video propaganda series) which they showed last Sunday, they proudly touted their new Spanish church in Milwaukee. They've decided to contest Catholic ownership of Mexican souls, and are having some success.
Erectus Walks Amongst Us Thanks for the ping. The lesson I take away from this is to never treat the invaders or their supporters with respect. The parents at this school should remove their kids immediately and begin to home school.
“A fair amount of (social studies instruction) has been in Spanish,” said Wilke, who has a daughter in fourth grade. “The kids are to the point where they don’t understand it.”
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#2. To: X-15, PSUSA.ROTARA, DISGUSTED (#0)
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#3. To: farmfriend (#1)
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#4. To: X-15 (#3)
It's Wisconsin, why don't the parents push for lessons in GERMAN or SWEDISH and stick it to the immigrant brats??
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#6. To: randge (#5)
What you have here is another taxpayer funded vehicle.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who
#7. To: X-15 (#3)
It's Wisconsin, why don't the parents push for lessons in GERMAN or SWEDISH and stick it to the immigrant brats??
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#8. To: IndieTX (#2)
“They’re force-fed Spanish.”
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