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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Education</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/11.aspx</link><description>School Finance and Employees, Curriculum, Special Ed, Higher Ed, School Choice</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2009 House Bill 4235 (Require schools to teach languages )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271159.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:16:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:271159</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271159.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=271159</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/Themes/leanandgreen/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;SaneMichigander:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s also understand that studying foreign languages enriches our understanding and strengthens our command of English.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;this is incredibly funny coming from a person who argues over the meaning of the word PRO.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 House Bill 4235 (Require schools to teach languages )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271043.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:07:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:271043</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271043.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=271043</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;simple solution. every student who wishes to take&amp;nbsp;a foreign language class must pass a proficiency test for english first.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;that way, no students who haven&amp;#39;t the slightest idea of what the teacher is talking about will be clogging up the learning process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 House Bill 4235 (Require schools to teach languages )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271036.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:53:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:271036</guid><dc:creator>SaneMichigander</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271036.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=271036</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/Themes/leanandgreen/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;jercommm:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Good idea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s start with English.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I agree. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s also understand that studying foreign languages enriches our understanding and strengthens our command of English.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: 2009 House Bill 4235 (Require schools to teach languages )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271032.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:46:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:271032</guid><dc:creator>jercommm</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271032.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=271032</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Good idea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s start with English.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>2009 House Bill 4235 (Require schools to teach languages )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271031.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:271031</guid><dc:creator>admin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/271031.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=11&amp;PostID=271031</wfw:commentRss><description>Introduced in the House on February 11, 2009&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-HB-4235'&gt;Click here to view bill details.&lt;/a&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>