From: Charles Bell <quester@eskimo.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:08:06 +0800
To: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Subject: Re: Let's *NOT* "Raise their Awareness"
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:

> whatever language one chooses. It seems that here in Texas (specifically,
> here in Amarillo), a local judge informed a Hispanic family that they were
> prohibited from speaking _only_ Spanish to their child at home. The
> rationale was that since English is the (ostensibly, in this area) Public
> Language of the school system here, failure to encourage use of English
> would adversely impact the child's education, and was thus a form of child
> abuse. If need be, I can provide excerpts from the local snoozepapers

Yes, and some years ago a State legislature (I forget which) passed a
resolution setting the value of pi at exactly 3.  I'm not sure how they
planned to enforce their will.  Do you know how the Texas judge means to
enforce his?

Charles Bell