Arabic coming to Mansfield

[Forever_frost]

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/07/mandatory-arabic-classes-coming-to-mansfield/

Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.

The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP) grant was awarded to Mansfield ISD last summer by the U.S. Department of Education.

As part of the five-year $1.3 Million grant, Arabic classes would be mandatory at Cross Timbers Intermediate School and Kenneth Davis Elementary School. The program would also be optional for students at T. A. Howard Middle School and Summit High School.

Parents at Cross Timbers say they were caught off-guard by the program, and were surprised the district only told them about it in a meeting Monday night between parents and Mansfield ISD Superintendent Bob Morrison.

The DOE has identified Arabic as a ‘language of the future.’ But parent Joseph Balson was frustrated by the past. “Why are we just now finding out about it?” asked Balson. “It’s them (Mansfield ISD) applying for the grant, getting it approved and them now saying they’ll go back and change it only when they were caught trying to implement this plan without parents knowing about it.”

[GhostTX]

Language of the future? WTF?

[samuel642000]

Language of the future? WTF?

That's the main part I caught also

[Denny]

Glad I got my kid out of public school... fucking DoE.

One of our country's wastes of money.

[Txstang1]

WTMF is wrong with this country.

[GSRGuy94]

Already got canned. I was watching the story on WFAA earlier.

[Vertnut]

Already got canned. I was watching the story on WFAA earlier.

I was about to post,"Mansfield? Are you kidding me?", when I saw your post. I know enough about Mansfield to know that there were some pissed-off parents when that bombshell was dropped.

[Cannonball996]

1.3 million dollars? how much does it actually cost to teach 2 classes? why does it require so much tax payer money?

and wtf Arabic is the ‘language of the future'? last year they told us it was mandarin

[Cooter]

wish I knew Arabic

[Vertnut]

1.3 million dollars? how much does it actually cost to teach 2 classes? why does it require so much tax payer money?

and wtf Arabic is the ‘language of the future'? last year they told us it was mandarin

We're talking "education" here. We all know it takes 10X the money it should to do about anything.

[SlowLX]

They need to make Spanish and English a required language from the start of kindergarten.

[Cooter]

They need to make Spanish and English a required language from the start of kindergarten.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOo this is uhmerica dadgummit, we don't need to know nothin but american!!!

[sc281]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOo this is uhmerica dadgummit, we don't need to know nothin but american!!!

I agree with spanish. Not knowing spanish is holding my career in banking back. It's an unfortunate necessity these days.

[Cooter]

I agree with spanish. Not knowing spanish is holding my career in banking back. It's an unfortunate necessity these days.

in europe, it's common for people to speak 3-5 languages... knowledge is power, and like I said, I would love to be able to speak Arabic

I would love to know more than the baby-speak amount of Spanish I know also

[momo]

i'm with forest. knowing arabic would be a nice step towards a career in the CIA.


that being said, fuck mansfield and fuck mandating anything.