Battered Country Syndrome: US State capacity is failing repeatedly and we've got no alternative
An entire nation, swearing dinner will be made correctly from now on
Twenty years ago today was a Thursday— the 30th of August, 2001.
Alicia Keys was the top musical artist with her hit Fallin’ and looked like this:
Big press items of the day included sensational news like Michael Jackson getting Marlon Brando to star in his music video for You Rock My World, and
Appeals court backs right to sue teachers for not teaching in English
BY MATT SEBASTIAN • CONTRA COSTA TIMES • AUGUST 30, 2001
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Parents can sue their children’s teachers if they don’t speak English in the classroom, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, upholding a key enforcement provision of California’s controversial Proposition 227.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, ruled Prop. 227’s enforcement provision is constitutional and not too vague, as the teachers had argued.
Backed by 61 percent of the state’s voters, Prop. 227 mandates that “all children in California public schools shall be taught English by being taught in English.” The law also allows parents to sue teachers or administrators who “willfully and repeatedly” refuse to offer students “the option of an English language instructional curriculum in public school.”
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.'
What has loyalty to the US Regime gotten Americans? Red State, or Blue State—what has improved for the great majority of people in this country? Those many millions who are not the fabled 0.1% nor part of the ‘upper middle class’, the remaining 9.9 of the upper ten, heralded as a new American Aristocracy?
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