Bilingual instructions in California.

[ZombieHorde]

Californians say no to bilingual instruction in schools.

Californians say no to bilingual instructions on ballots.

Californians say yes to bilingual instructions on curbside waste receptacles:

Coloque el recipients con las flechas hacia la calle
Place container with arrow facing street

No ruede el recipiente con la tapa abierta
Do not tilt or roll container with lid open

Recortes de jardin solamente
Yard clippings only

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This argument was constructed by Mullen.

[CTyankee]

1. My grandson is in an immersion kindergarten Italian program in Glendale.

The school also has a German immersion program. This year they have 3 immersion language programs: German, Italian and Spanish. It's doing very well...

People are beginning to sign up for these immersion programs because they have learned about the benefits to brain development in children who learn multiple languages as a child.

This will turn out to be a very good thing for schools who take this up. Americans have a visceral reaction to kids learning anything except English but they shouldn't. Learning other languages IMPROVES their minds. It doesn't hurt them at all...

I wonder if CA would have these programs at all had it not been for the Prop. that decreed English only in the schools...

[ZombieHorde]

2. I wish I was raised bilingual. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

3. Masaka sonna koto ga aruhazu nai yo!

うそっ! ざんねんですね.っかなしいなあ!!

[ZombieHorde]

5. Uso? Isn't that liar? nt

[AsahinaKimi]

7. It can also mean like...

NO WAY!!!!

[ZombieHorde]

9. Oh, thanks for the Nihongo tip! nt

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Dou itashi!

いいえ、こちらこそ！

[slackmaster]

4. The ballots in my precinct in 2008 were provided in SIX languages including English

Every publication I get from my phone provider, the power company, and many other sources comes in English and Spanish at a minimum.

I'm not at all sure what ZombieHorde is referring to.

[ZombieHorde]

6. This is good to hear. How long has this been?

The argument was written in 2002.

[slackmaster]

13. We've had ballots in Spanish, Filipino, Vietnamese, Farsi, etc. for many election cycles

There have always been people arguing for English-only for all functions of government. They have never made much headway.

[ZombieHorde]

18. Are you talking about sample ballots? nt

[Speck Tater]

8. We should encourage people to use their own native languages.

After all, we don't want little brown people learning English. Then they might get the good jobs that rightfully belong to us real Murkins.

[petronius]

10. If I understand correctly, CA passed an official language law in the 80s

(as a constitutional amendment, perhaps?) but it has been interpreted by government at I'd guess every level as advisory only. Basically, it says something like "the Legislature will do nothing the undermine the status of English as CA's official language."

[Warpy]

12. I live in NM, where everything is bilingual

and I can't believe it's such a big frigging deal elsewhere.

[XemaSab]

14. You don't want your maid or your gardener screwing it up

[Iggo]

15. Sample ballots are in multiple languages.

Have been for decades.

[ZombieHorde]

16. What about the ballots people vote on? nt

[Iggo]

17. That I'm not sure of.

I speak and read English so I'm not sure what the procedure is, but I would guess that they could request a ballot in one of the languages that all the other election materials are available in...but I'd just be guessing.