Monday, April 29, 2002
Good Sense in NYC on BE
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told listeners of his Saturday radio show that he was committed to improving English instruction in NYC schools: "I've watched in other countries with big immigrant communities and that's the first thing they do: total immersion. If you don't learn the language you can't do anything else. This is an English-speaking country and if you don't speak and read English you won't get a great job. You won't get any job."
The Mayor's opposition to bilingual education was reported in the New York Times on April 27th (registration required), along with his evaluation of NYC's education system in general: "If the police damaged our children the way the educational system did, we'd go shoot the police commissioner."
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