Our Founding Fathers probably never even thought that it would be a good idea to put English as the official language of the new United States as an article in the Constitution. How much better off we would be had that been the case. My grandparents came here from Eastern Europe and didn't speak a word of English. But they knew that it was either learn basic English or starve. Their kids, including both of my parents, were in public schools where nothing but English was spoken and they learned it pretty quickly, and that actually helped my grandparents. Now we have brain damaged "progressives" running the schools who think it just so unfair to make those poor Somali immigrants, or Chinese or whatever learn English and acclimate to America but demand that the taxpayers support teaching those kids in the native language of their parents. I wonder how much it costs the taxpayers in places like L.A. where kids are likely taught in 132 different languages, and by delaying their need to learn English, how much it handicaps those kids in future schooling and employment.