Word: christied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas, which after World War I opposed the teaching of all foreign languages in grade schools, may soon be as bilingual as New Mexico. Last week almost 13,000 Corpus Christi students from the third grade and up were learning to use Spanish as readily as English...
...state which shares a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, 160,000 Mexican-born residents, and an uncounted number of U.S. citizens of Mexican and Spanish blood Spanish would seem to be a necessity, but in 1940, Corpus Christi had to disregard the state law even to make Spanish a grade-school subject. A year later, the state legalized this action. Two years later, 1,125 Texas school districts were teaching Spanish to some 250,000 children...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...
Mild-mannered Teacher Mireles, a determined amalgam of Latin and American, symbolically keeps two books on his desk: Shakespeare and Cervantes. He believes that in time his bilingual children will lead their adults a long way toward inter-American understanding. In Corpus Christi more than 600 adults have enrolled in night Spanish classes in order to keep up with their children...
...finally, Bill, think of this. Grain prices are going up. And you can't buy a tomato anywhere. Joe Lyford '41 Ensign, USNR (Section Base Corpus Christi, Texas...