Dumber Than Bean Dip
Okay, so the Houston School District, being the most diverse school district in America, has language emersion programs. If you want your child to learn a second language, you can send them to a magnet school where teachers are trained to teach another language. There are school teaching Mandarin, French, Spanish, you name it.
Well, this year they have a magnet school that teaches Arabic in a full immersion program. It is popular – 490 applications for about 132 seats in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes. They will teach half in Arabic and half in English. Equal parts of African Americans, Hispanics and Caucasians “make up the vast majority of the school’s student body.”
Yesterday was the first day of school. Little kiddos in pre-K and kindergarten went to their first day of school to be greeted by 30 adults scaring the crap outta them.
Protests marred the first day of class for about 132 kindergarten and pre-K students at the Houston Independent School District’s new Arabic Immersion Magnet School.
Shortly before 8 am, almost 30 adults spread along the fenced perimeter of the Heights-area school, waving American and Israeli flags while touting protest signs.
One of the signs said,”Everything I ever cared to know about Islam was taught to me by Muslims on 9-11-2001.”
Holy damn crap.
These are 4 and 5 year olds. Numero uno thing to know: they are not the enemy. There is a real special place in hell for people who think frightening children is a good idea.
Numero Twoo: Not all Muslims speak Arabic. And not all Arabic speakers are Muslim. A significant number are Christian.
Numero Threeo: You are idiots. Complete and total idiots. Quit waving the flag around. You do not own it. Go home.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Wanna turn kids into terrorists you got to start working them early on.
1http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Counter-protesters-on-hand-for-day-two-at-Arabic-6463952.php
The good news is that counter protestors and immersion language school supporters came out in force today to support the school and kids.
2Call the Houston PD. There’s a bunch of pedophiles waving phallic symbols at pre-kindergarten and kindergarten children.
3Reminds me of Little Rock.
4Love this blog but you made a spelling error here–you mean immersion instrsd of emersion.
5This protest is predictable. The protesters likely aren’t very bright and after they are assimilated by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, their thinking gets done for them. Sad but predictable.
6They should also protest the schools’ teaching English. If American was good enough for Jesus to talk, it is good enough for me.
7Interesting sign, about all the protestor having learned all they know about Arabic they learned on 9/11 … most of them stopped learning at the end of 4th grade.
8These xenophobic dipsticks would show up and protest if pita bread and hummus were offered for a snack at the school.
9Thank you, Jo. I’m gonna go fix it.
10If we don’t have good Amurkins who can speak Arabic, how will we translate all those devious web sites where the terrorists transmit all those secret messages. And they are a special kind of evil stupid.
11A good demo for the dimwitted stupidity of bigots. As you stated Arabic is the language of a large number of other peoples, not just muslins.
12I would like to point out to the ignorant douchebag protestors waving the Israeli flags that Arabic is one of the official languages of Israel.
13@Angelo_Frank
That is ohhhhh so true! Well done.
14This just illustrates the deplorable rise of the Igno-Americans (a term I learned from Kevin Horrigan of the St. Louis Post Dispatch). Nothing like terrorizing kids to make you feel like a real ‘Murican. Sheesh!
15#4: Even those dipsticks might want us to have some people who speak Arabic for the same reason we wanted people who could speak Russian and Chinese back when (and still).
Seriously, waving an American flag is something I hesitate to do because so many of them seem to be held by this sort of moron.
16These “low-information” citizens are predictably afraid of anything outside their comfort zone which just about everything intellectually new to them. They want their life experiences to dominate the rest of us. Sorry morons, it’s called learning.
17Kudos to the Houston School District for offering this valuable learning experience.
ignorance is killing our country.
18Hamdillah! Thats as close as I can remember the spelling!
19Perfect start to any young one’s education,having the S*** scared out of them by fanatical right wing nut jobs. They will remember this and prolly have nightmares for years.
20Bean Dip resents being lowballed again.
21Sounds–and looks–like Little Rock in 1957. And done by essentially the same sort of people for essentially the same “reasons.”
22There is intelligent life….. in Houston.
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/DiCapua-Yes-I-am-sending-my-child-to-Arabic-6465077.php
From the local paper.
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