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...taken on everyone from students to Congress to the Supreme Court. This time he unloaded against the bilingual learning programs that have cost the Federal Government $1.7 billion in 17 years, calling them "a failed path." He was particularly rough on the policy of giving foreign-language-speaking students schoolwork in their own tongue, rather than teaching them English as quickly as possible. "As fellow citizens, we need a common language," said Bennett. "In the United States, that language is English...
...Schoolwork entered my mind once in a while, but I was just too burnt out. My high school required four or five years of just about everything, and I was determined to take a break from the neck-breaking cramming I had suffered throughout those four years. I can't even remember some of the courses I took freshman year, but most were pretty good. And most of them required at least a dozen books. Of course, only the foolish and the lonely read everything, but at least I bought everything the Coop had to offer...
...tongues. These programs have their roots in the federal Bilingual Education Act, passed as a noble experiment in 1968. Its original aim was to generate optional instruction that would help immigrant youngsters and native-born Hispanic-American children learn English quickly. Meanwhile, they were to move ahead in their schoolwork by using their own language as much as necessary. That at least is what Congress thought it was doing...
...better get rich or I'll have to depend on monsters." After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork and to his father's growing annoyance, yield the final fragment of the puzzle. Mark knows he must go to Santa Catalina, a small out island in the Bahamas, where he will surely strike it rich...
They claim they're "normal, red-blooded Americans," and that their business has not interfered with their schoolwork: "I wouldn't have done any anyway," Langerman claims. Elvy chimes in: "It was a choice between the real world and school. I've chosen the real world." In reality, it has convinced Elvy and Langerman to change their majors from Philosophy and Applied Math, respectively, to Computer Science...