mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Ryan Ginstrom <ryang@tinned.meatgol.com> wrote:> 
>>If you had either parent born in a foreign country, much less a "communist"
>>one, and much much less if you yourself were foreign-born, your chances of
>>getting a security clearance were pretty slim.
> 
> 
> Perhaps in the military; in engineering, I knew an awful lot of Mainland
> Chinese working on such things as missile guidance systems, IFF, etc.
> 
> 
>>This is kind of similar to how the US government generally has an "English
>>only" education policy, actively stamping out ability in other languages
>>among children
> 
> 
> You couldn't prove that by San Francisco's school system.

Except for Louisiana, I don't think it's true anywhere. Louisiana made
speaking French in school illegal for many years (well before our latest
spat with them). The fuss in the rest of the country is about public
schools teaching subject like math and social studies in languages other
than English, but foreign laguage study is still officially encouraged.
Private schools can operate in any language they choose: we have schools
that operate exclusively in Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Mandarin, and
Cantonese in San Jose and its suburbs.

KWW