I just read a few of the reactions to my earlier post concerning the whole 'immigrants should learn english' thing. To clarify, I don't mean they should be fluent by any means, but it'd be nice if they could speak and understand it to a certain degree.

We have a classroom where non-english speaking students learn at my school. I've had to grade their papers as part of my aiding elective (not for their class, but my teacher said they needed help with stuff) and it's really... bad. These kids have no idea what's going on and they really have no motivation to try. I seriously graded 5 papers where the kids cheated off each other to spell the word chair - and got it wrong. This is no joke.

Anyway, it may be arrogant of me to want them to learn how to speak English beforehand, but... meh. It's just my opinion.