County Gets Funds for Arabic, Chinese Classes
The federal government, aiming to increase the number of Americans who can speak Arabic or Chinese, has granted Fairfax County schools $188,000. The story is here.
By Focus on Fairfax |
September 21, 2006; 10:02 AM ET
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Posted by: What is the catch? | September 21, 2006 2:10 PM
Great! I believe that the more languages we all speak the better. Now,if only my child's Fairfax County Public H.S. Algebra teacher could speak English clearly enough so the students could understand her, I might think the tax-payers were getting something to show for their money.
Posted by: FedUp-House4Sale | September 27, 2006 3:56 PM
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Wht's the catch?
Surely, Fairfax schools can figure out some way to spend at least a million bucks or so on this.
Why not?
I repeat. What is the catch?