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Phone messages from school now sometimes start in Spanish, English afterwards (1 Viewer)

spreagle

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Unacceptable.  I'm firmly drawing the line right here, school messages should be in English first, Spanish second. 

 
I'm guessing this is a case by case basis. If a family has opted to receive school notifications in spanish, I fail to see the problem .

 
Guessing the first sentence is the Spanish equivalent of "If you want to hear the following message in Spanish, press "1" now.": If 1 isn't pressed, you get the English version. If they reversed it, they'd get complaints about needing to press 1 means that they're using Spanish as the default when it should be English.  "I shouldn't have to press anything to hear it in English!"

 
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spreagle said:
Unacceptable.  I'm firmly drawing the line right here, school messages should be in English first, Spanish second. 
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No accetables. Dibujo una línea aqui. Los mensajes de escuela fuere en primer Ingles y segundo Espanol. 

 
apalmer said:
Guessing the first sentence is the Spanish equivalent of "If you want to hear the following message in Spanish, press "1" now.": If 1 isn't pressed, you get the English version. If they reversed it, they'd get complaints about needing to press 1 means that they're using Spanish as the default when it should be English.  "I shouldn't have to press anything to hear it in English!"
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Exactly.

The OP is asking us to be politically correct and reduce the effectiveness of our government services.

 
apalmer said:
Guessing the first sentence is the Spanish equivalent of "If you want to hear the following message in Spanish, press "1" now.": If 1 isn't pressed, you get the English version. If they reversed it, they'd get complaints about needing to press 1 means that they're using Spanish as the default when it should be English.  "I shouldn't have to press anything to hear it in English!"
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What I got the other day was "the following message will be played in Spanish followed by English" there was no button pushing on this one. Then again they were passing messages on this:  http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20160601/novato-students-homicide-called-gang-related-as-authorities-id-missing-suspect as opposed to some PTA meeting schedule :shrug:  

 
Enjoy it while it last, at some point they will start in Arabic, then Mandarin, then Spanish, then English.

 
they do that so as to weed out the #### parents who can't be bothered to wait 5 extra seconds to hear important messages. parents who give a #### about their kids wait it out so that they're in the loop on school news.

won't matter to the hanger-uppers since their kids won't graduate anyways

 
My kid's school is pretty damn bilingual. Everything is in both English and Spanish. With the explosion in the Hispanic population, learning Spanish at a young age like he is will really set him up for success in the future.

I, for one, am disgusted. My granddaddy didn't fight the Nazis and Japs just so my kid could have a broader worldview. This is America!

 
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