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28373: Hermantin( News)'No' to Creole immersion (letter to Editor) (fwd)
From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>
Miami Herald
Posted Wednesday April 26, 2006
'No' to Creole immersion
Re the April 16 article True immersion: School looks to offer Creole: Just when
one thinks that the Miami-Dade Public Schools District has started to ascend
from the abyss in which it wallowed for years, we learn of the latest
flirtation with political correctness, introducing Creole as another immersion
language in one or more Miami public schools where Haitian descendants are in
the majority.
Let's put aside for a moment the now quaint idea of American immigrants
becoming immersed in English. We know well enough that here in Miami that idea
was long ago dismissed. It is already tough enough for Haitians immigrants to
succeed in Miami. But to now aid their assimilation in a language spoken only
by other Haitians -- and not even the historically official Haitian language of
French -- is lunacy.
Imagine if New York City schools some 125 years ago had suggested immersing its
then-arriving Eastern European and Russian immigrants in Yiddish. Its only
benefit would have been to increase the future box-office receipts for Yentl.
LANG BAUMGARTEN, Coconut Grove