(The Center Square) – The Denver school district is among the first in the country to adopt a “language justice” policy as a “long term goal.”
The district would encourage non-English speaking students to be able to use their native language to learn as opposed to being educated in English, which advocates say is oppressive and rooted in racism.
Denver schools had about 90,250 students in 2022 with 35,000 multilingual learners with home languages other than English. The district has 200 languages spoken across the district, with Spanish as the home language for the majority of those.
The district included a draft of an equity document that includes a policy statement on “language justice.” It was included in the Nov. 16 school board agenda. The document includes this definition for “language justice”: “The notion of respecting every individual’s fundamental language rights – to be able to communicate, understand, and be understood in the language in which they prefer and feel most articulate and powerful.”
The district didn’t respond to an email seeking comment. It’s not clear how much such a policy would cost and the district didn’t provide details in the school board agenda packet of how to implement it.
The Colorado chapter of the education advocacy organization Stand For Children stated it worked with the Denver school district to get the language justice policy adopted.
“We will continue to work with school leaders and staff to help provide knowledge of these policies and strategies to accomplish language justice in every classroom and school,” Colorado Stand For Children posted on its website.
The Community Language Cooperative, which has advocated for language justice, referred to a chart that explained what is involved in the program.
“The organization has allocated significant funds to language justice efforts. This is a yearly budget line item,” the chart states.
It also states that meetings or public events “are facilitated in the represented languages. … Interpretation is made available to all participants, not just the non-English speakers.”
The organization would also hire bilingual staff members, put them in leadership positions and pay them “equitably” to “ensure that bilingualism is a valued skill for the organization.”
“It’s not just a matter of hiring more interpreters and translators but rather creating systems and building the infrastructure that best supports linguistically diverse families and supporting multilingual staff,” Rosa Guzman-Snyder, co-founder of Community Language Cooperative, said in an email to The Center Square.
The Community Language Cooperative, which provides translation services, explained in a post on The Colorado Trust’s website how language justice could be implemented.
“Here’s how it works: When somebody speaks in English, [interpreter Luis] Gomez simultaneously whispers the Spanish interpretation into his mic, which feeds the headsets of everyone in the room. There’s another person whispering the English interpretation when somebody speaks Spanish,” the post read.
this nation has lost its freaking mind.
we have backslid into a socilalist hell and we may not recover.
SINCE the days of folks coming in via ellis island, SPEAKING AND READING ENGLISH WAS A WELL KNOWN requirement of even Emmigrating here, LET ALONE becoming a citizen.
BUT then the evil demented demon-rats, POOPOOED that way back iirc in the 70s, and we’ve gone down the TUBES ever since..
ALL IN THE NAME OF ;inclusivity’..
AND HOW one wonders, many languages will teachers be REQUIRED NOW to know, to ‘teach all these students in their native tongue?
How many interpreters will be needing to get put on the payrolls?
The Democrat Party ruled district would encourage non-English speaking (illegal immigrant) students to be able to use their native language to learn as opposed to being educated in English, which advocates say is oppressive and rooted in racism.
Denver Democrat Party ruled schools had about 90,250 students in 2022 with 35,000 multilingual (illegal immigrant) learners with home languages other than English.
Why is it that the disgraceful Democrats want to destroy our U.S.A.? To ignore and change our U.S. Constitution, our laws, our heritage, our history, our language, they even want to destroy our Childrens gender. 🙁 🙁 🙁
BECAUSE they seem to hate EVERYTHING about America..
Denver needs to put this to a district wide vote!!!! They are the ones that will pay for this!!!
WITH how blue the entire state seems to be now days, if it WENT To a vote, i see it passing with flying colors…
There is not another country in the world that is stupid enough to even think of doing this!
By these standards, (as examples) United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Sweden, etc., etc. are all guilty of being “oppressive and rooted in racism.”
Note when woke Democrats don’t like someone or something they use terms like “racism” “bigot” or “sexist”. No proof required.
In this self-righteous, woke Democrat Party and their idiot supporters, the U.S. Constitution, Laws, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, if the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, laws, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
BUT in libtard speek, its only US WESTERN Nations, guilty of these sorts of things..
ONLY us whites, who are ‘racists’.
Only westerners guilty of bigotry
Only males guilty of sexism etc..
“The notion of respecting every individual’s fundamental language rights – to be able to communicate, understand, and be understood in the language in which they prefer and feel most articulate and powerful.”
How does a country recover from these self inflicted wounds ???
YOU don’t. WHICH IS THEIR end goal.
Elect Trump & other America first politicians, mass deport illegal aliens, build the wall, defund fed education agency, organize national mass protests against all politicians, schools & school boards in support of this & all the other Socialist / Marxist anti USA, pro BLM, pro antifa, pro crime & pro Islamist terrorism indoctrination.
Stop public welfare & deport all the foreign speaking bogus asylees & other illegal aliens. Stop foreign aid & visas to any country refusing to accept their deported minor / adult citizens. Confine any illegal aliens who refuse to identify themselves & their home country & remove their minor children into federal / state custody.
We can’t be bothered by those calling us homophobe. Islamophobe, racist, etc since they & we know who we actually are – we are conservative moral proud Americans who are ready to throw their BS into their faces.
I’m willing to chip in to help pay for organization & funding of protesters to harass & counter attack the paid Marxist liberal left protesters.
Seems only mass protests taking over streets, schools, obstructing traffic & commerce & harassing politicians, federal agencies & the propaganda state news corps will maybe stop the economic & social death spiral we are in.
Democrats are turning this country into another africa. With countries instead of states. Each with their own language and culture.
So they are going to force oppressive and racist practices on those that do not speak the other languages, talking about a racist policy. The government has been forcing this policy through making just about all the online adds in other languages over the English language, the byden has been trying to make a one world language it looks like they are doing jyst that.
BUT remember, to leftists its NOT racist if it borks over just whites.