-The article claims that Luis Fortuño is stating that he is for the idea of a bilingual educational system in Puerto Rico, and adds that this in no way should be vinculated to his impending candiateship. Please, how can one thing not have anything to do with the other.
Education and Criminality has been, and will continue to be, the campaign strategy chosen to get votes for years, and Fortuño is no different than others. According to the article, he goes further by saying that, by his judgment, it will take 12 years to form bilingual students. In 12 years most students will have graduated, and the system would have failed in completing their goal. This is not to mention how one party's policy will change when the opposing party wins the election. Nice try, but I feel, and the article clearly states, that when Fortuño speaks about a bilingual education, he is referring to paving the way for statehood, and thus, to win votes.
If history has taught us anything, it shows us how resistent Puerto Ricans are to the English language; heck the United States tried it for almost thirty years after the invasion without success. The islanders are just as resistent today, 108 years later.
This issue is more of the political rollercoaster ride that the PPD and PNP have put the people through; unfortunately, the ones who are feeling the dizziness and vomiting are the students and teachers involved.
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I agree with you in the fact that if 108 years later of the North American invasion puertoricans have resisted to learn english, this will continue let's say forever. It is a foolish idea to try and make bilingual the education in Puerto Rico. In the North American invation this didn't work, it is obvious that it would not work now.
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