Court rules 'Talking while Spanish' grounds for expulsion at Kansas school

[LanDi Liu]

Thanks for putting it in plaintext this time!  : )

Randy

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Dennis Baron <debaron at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> There's a new post on the Web of Language:
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> Court rules 'Talking while Spanish' grounds for expulsion at Kansas
> school
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> U.S. district court judge J. Thomas Marten ruled Friday that an
> English-only school policy at St. Anne Catholic School in Wichita,
> Kansas, violated no laws, and that the offense that has come to be
> called 'talking while Spanish' was grounds for expulsion in the
> private elementary school....
>
> Judge Marten rejected [the plaintiffs'] claims, ruling that it's
> perfectly o.k. to ban Spanish in school. He further found that the
> school's English-only rule had been in place for too short a time to
> create a hostile learning environment, and so it wasn't illegal.
>
> Although the judge didn't seem to consider how expulsion might impact
> the learning environment at St. Anne's, he did chastise the school for
> not anticipating the impact that the English-only rule would have on
> those affected, and for not consulting with students and parents
> before implementing the policy.
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>
> ... read the rest of this post and the ongoing thread at the Web of
> Language
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