I haven't heard that song in ages. Heck of a song to have stuck in your head. LMAO
Geoff, where have you been? How's the new house? Unpack all your junk yet?
RE: Speaking English..my father always tells the story of when he was a young boy and had to go to the first day of school with his mother who didn't speak English. My dad would have to translate to the teacher what my grandma said. My grandmother told my dad to tell the teacher that if he misbehaves, she can spank him. Then he said, my grandmother would look at him waving her finger at him and say, "and if you come home and cry because you were spanked, you'll get another spanking." He laughs that as a little kid he hated telling his teacher that.
Wouldn't that go over so well today?
Oh, and my grandparents would tell all there kids to "learn English, speak English well and wherever you go, BUT in the house speak Italian. My grandfathers both worked and from what I understand spoke English, not so for grandmothers, although one of them understood more English. Just thought I'd share.
TIS
It's real discouraging to read or hear comments such as Beth's. It continues a pattern that goes back over a century. Supreme Court case of Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) for example whereby the Court ruled a Nebraska law unconstitutional which stated that kids before 6th grade could not be taught any language but English in school. However, the law was passed at the behest of Nebraskans who had a disdain for "foreign people,languages, and ideas." It appears that people with such disdain are still around.
"Generosity. That was my first mistake." "Experience must be our only guide; reason may mislead us." "Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read."
Heck of a song to have stuck in your head. LMAO
