Should Oregon Pass the English Immersion Measure?

English Immersion is the BEST policy for teaching English

The mother in the Argentinian family I mentioned in my earlier post could NOT speak English when I first met the family. Yet her children all learned it in school.

I was friends with her elder son who was in the military and stationed near where I lived in upstate NY. Her husband was abusive. They lived in California where she never had to learn English which prevented her from getting help or a job. Her son had been trying to convince her to leave his father. After an attack where her husband broke her nose she took her youngest son and came to NY on a bus. Her elder son was sharing a tiny apartment and asked if they could stay with me. While she was living with me she learned English. It turned her life around.

I've lived overseas. I have helped immigrants from Thailand and China learn English as a second language. Immersion in any language helps people learn that language better whether they are children or adults.

I'd like you to show me a quote where Bill Sizemore says he doesn't know what English immersion means. I do not believe it. I am sick of all the deceptive advertising focusing on Bill Sizemore's character. I've met him and he is a decent caring father and human being.

I am a democrat, so I don't agree with all is views, but I am intelligent and I can think for myself. I don't let deceptive advertising on either side of the political fence sway me. Most of the measures Bill Sizemore puts on the Oregon ballot benefit hard working middle class Oregonians. I have voted for most of his measures.

I do not understand why the teachers unions and the media in Oregon love to trash Bill Sizemore. Their public hatred of him is irrational. I've never seen a public figure attacked like it this anywhere else I have ever lived.

Maybe you should read about the success with English immersion in California and Arizona, where voters approved similar measures for English immersion:

http://www.onenation.org/0008/pr081400.html
http://www.heartland.org/publications/school %20reform/article.html?articleid=10241

Interestingly enough, the Association of School Administrators opposed these measures when they where on the ballot too. Makes you wonder if they really care about the children or about finding ways to ask taxpayers for more money by dragging out a self-induced need for costly special education.