Another Lefty feel-good idea gone horribly awry.

Wow, it turns out that the best way to make non-English speaking students stop feeling isolated and make them part of American society is to make them speak English.

Waiting for La Raza to condemn this as racist in 3…2…

Yes, I’m about to go off on another “politics of emotion” diatribe.

Like most modern education ideas designed to make the kids’ lives easier while they’re in school, long-term ESL programs have the predictable effect of hurting the kids outside of school.

This is what happens when the showered-up hippies are allowed to create policy with their hearts instead of their brains. Simple logic tells us that your best chance for success in any country is a command of that country’s native language.

But in the minds of the modern public educator, it’s mean to expect kids to, um, learn stuff while they’re in school. Especially if they’ve come here from another country and don’t speak English well.

In other words, they struggle because they lack the one tool that it’s insensitive to make them quickly learn how to use so they won’t have to struggle any more. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Between logic like this and the frequent back room deals with teachers unions these poor kids barely stand a chance.

But I’m probably an ethnically insensitive bastard for wishing these kids had a fighting chance.