Arizona Immigration and Education
April 30th, 2010 | No Comments
A blogger for the Wall Street Journal has written a post commenting on the impact the immigration law may have on education.
The new law requires police to question anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. The educational implication for this may result in the arbitrary firing of teachers with heavy accents or have less than standard English syntax or morphology.


American-born Taiwanese girl who married a Japanese guy. And who forgot about six years' of Spanish grammar and most of the vocab.
Korean-American girl who blogs under a Spanish pseudonym because being culturally confusing is fun. Native speakers say that she has outstanding Spanish (which is a definite compliment) and outstanding German (which is most assuredly not).
American-born, Taiwanese guy who took five semesters worth of German and ended up with a major in Linguistics.