This isolates the non-native speakers, and expects then to learn in one year what most native English speakers have learned over a decade while still learning reading, math and science. Not only is this bill impractical, it is cruel. No where else on earth are people so arrogant about their language and culture as Americans are. Literally every other place in the world, small children are instructed in more than one language. Only in America do we discourage our children from being multi-lingual, and expect them to speak only one language really well.
All experts agree that the time to learn language well is in early childhood.
American schools go against this logic, and begin their foreign language instruction much later. American actions speak loudly about American attitudes, and language is one of the primary ways in which America asserts how important it is to the rest of the world. When voting this November, keep in mind the true intentions of Proposition 203's authors. Think of all the children who will be negatively impacted if this bill is passed. Think about the way America is, and think about how America should ideally be.