With your tax paid money, foreign languages take priority over English being taught to preschoolers.
Here in North Georgia, in a county where I live, preschoolers are being taught several foreign languages, and taxpayers are paying for it. Called a charter school, which some may think is a private school, it’s actually funded by taxpayer money just like the regular public, tax-supported schools.
Is this in preparation for a one-world government?
Our beautiful English language is complex and should only be taught in schools. Kids are graduating from high school not knowing a pronoun from a noun and think conjugating a verb is a foreign language. What is happening is very disturbing and parents should be outraged.
My husband’s grandfather was a Methodist pastor and wrote pulpit editorials. The following is one of his sermons about the English language in public schools, written on Friday, May 27, 1898, more than one hundred years ago.
Here’s an excerpt:
PULPIT EDITORIALS by A.H Kistler, 1898
“The United States of America is and ought to be an English speaking country. This is not Sweden, nor Germany, nor Italy, but the great republic of America, where English is the ruling and should be the universal tongue. Children should be taught it first, and it is the only language that should be taught at the public charge. Other languages may be acquired as luxuries, but this is a necessity. English is the language of our courts, businesses, homes and society, and should be the language of all religious worship, except for the immigrants for a short time while they learn [English].
The language of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Bryant, Longfellow, Burk and Pitt, John Quincy Adams, Webster, Bacon and Macaulay, Franklin and Washington Irving, and Spurgeon and Beecher, is surely good enough to express all ideas of devotion.
The father who lays a straw in the way of his child’s learning to master English is, though possibly unconsciously, doing him a great wrong, for it is a very important part of the culture that he must have to be influential in this country, and his mastery of this language of the people will be necessary for his success.
The English language is spread more rapidly than any other. In 1700, only 7 million people spoke English. Whereas today, 125 million speak it. English is spoken by more people than any other language, save that of China. It is the medium of communication between the people of the two wealthiest and most cultured nations on the face of the earth. It is carried by missionaries and teachers to civilized nations and barbarous tribes, to distant continents and the islands of the sea. It is more popular than ever before and the cultured of every country are teaching it to their children. Many believe it will be the universal language.
Though the English language is not as flexible as the Germans, nor as musical as the French, it is more expressive than either, and in the hands of the orator, poet or essayist, is a marvelous instrument to impart facts, figures or sentiments, in such a way as to ensure understanding, rivet attention and force conviction. Let every young man make English his chief study.
The languages of diplomacy in the past have been three. First the Greek, next the Latin, after that the French. The mode of conveying ideas today in diplomatic circles should be the English language.”
SOURCE: Fulton Journal (semi-weekly), established in 1854.
WOW! What a beautiful editorial about the English language. Because of the importance of teaching our youngest the English language, I consider this the most blog post I have written to date. The very future of this country hinges upon the next generations’ understanding and articulating of the English Language.
Parents should rise up in protest over the current teachings of foreign languages having a priority over English. Some students graduate from high school unable to read. One of the most important books I had when my children were growing was titled, “Why Johnny Can’t Read.” I would highly recommend it to any parent with school-aged children.
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AC
