Barbara, You should live in California! They don't have "the money" for an English immersion program. Politics. Jan jgrellim@sbcglobal.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara de Mare" <barbarademare@yahoo.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Ramblings about Dutch >I totally agree. The good thing about our Spanish immersion program is >that it is also an English immersion program. Instruction alternates weeks >as to the language in which it is conducted. As I said before, third >graders must pass the exams in both English and Spanish despite their >native language. AND in this part of the world, depsite my objections and >protests (certainly no one cares about my opinion), Spanish is necessary >for the conduct of most businesses. > > Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. > Historian, genealogist and attorney > 155 Polifly Road > Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 > (201) 567-9440 office > BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com (home) > http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/ > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "GWGEHoyt@aol.com" <GWGEHoyt@aol.com> > To: nywestch@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 7:16:27 PM > Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Ramblings about Dutch > > Friend-- > The business world that I lived in was only conducted in English. I was > the > international guy for my company and had lots of worldwide travel. All of > our > Purchase Orders and Contracts were written in English, no matter where in > the > world it originated. We may be putting our children who only speak > Spanish in > a deficit postion when it comes to many types of employment. > George > > > ************************************** > Get a sneak peek of > the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message