BIG Dummy of the Week

We have to put up with alot of stupidness these days. Bush being POTUS is of course the most obvious example. Still, there's Condi's 1984-esque speeches about torture and "black sites." There is the shrieking over Christmas and trees.

But today's shinning example of idiocy run amok is Principal Jennifer Watts of Kansas City, Kansas, who suspended 16 year old Zach Rubio for__ GASP! speaking Spanish at school. Another "big dummy" to the crummy teacher who turned in the boy and his classmate in the first place.

Don't our "educators" (a real stretch in regards to Watts) have anything better to do. I know they are busy out west kicking evolution out of the schools, but this latest bit of news from the Plains really stinks. The school had no formal policy (meaning written) that addressed their no-speaking Spanish ban. The school district overturned the principal's decision. However, there are larger issues here.

Xenophobia must be tempered by reason people. When I was in school it was a good thing to be bilingual (the student in question is a U.S. citizen who speaks unaccented, fluent English; he has a Spanish speaking father who is a naturalized citizen). Not that most schools try real hard to teach foreign languages. Americans, as a rule, don't think they need a second language. Even if they like traveling abroad.

But, nowadays we all hate the Hispanic hordes that are flooding our nation. Taking all of those great gardening, construction, slaughter-house, nanny, and busboy jobs that we all are so anxious to do. Sure, it would be great if the more recent immigrants learned English more quickly. But, I think what we all are so afraid of is not being able to understand them. They could be talking about our stupid a**es and we wouldn't even know it. We can't read their newspapers; they could be planning a coup. But what galls me most most of all is that I can't fully enjoy their television shows, which look a helluva lot more interesting than ours.