As a Phoenician, you are all missing the point. If you can’t speak English, you will never have a chance to move up in life.you will always be cleaning a house or mowing a lawn. It is not acceptable to have a teacher who cannot speak English teaching early English learners. My daughter and son-in-law are both teachers and are both completely bilingual. Many of their peers are as well. They do it to be able to communicate with their students and their parents. We need standards in order to get up from the bottom of the state education rankings. I walk into the Hispanic “Rancho Market” supermarket in my neighborhood and the cashiers only speak Spanish to me. They just assume that is the language I speak. I come from immigrants who learned English as quickly as possible in order to move up in life. Not learning English is also dangerous. Our road signs are in English and we have “suicide lanes” at rush hour. I have seen many accidents caused by not understanding the signs (out of towner’s/seniors/and yes Hispanic drivers). Come spend some time here if you want to understand the issues we face in Arizona. Don’t believe everything you read in the press, even the WSJ.