A recent study came out demonstrating that bilingual people’s brains work faster and better: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/254753.php
That is a serious argument for requiring all California school children to become bilingual, if not multi-lingual. At the same time they should be taught to be multi-cultural.
Bruce Anderson of the Anderson Valley Advertiser
One of my favorite places in California (I’ve visited a couple of times when I ran for State Treasurer back in the 90s) is Booneville in the Anderson Valley of California (Mendocino County). That’s also the home of one of my favorite newspapers, the Anderson Valley Advertiser published by Bruce Anderson, a small town paper with a national and even international following. Bruce’s insightful and witty commentaries and expository writing on such controversies as Judi Bari’s attempted assassination and poverty pimping have drawn numerous supporters and detractors, but nobody will doubt that it makes great reading.
Anyway, the Anderson Valley has an incredible alternative language known as Boontling, and it really ought to be available to California students as a legitimate language elective. Watch this video and you’ll see just how challenging it can be to a young (or old) mind:
http://screen.yahoo.com/boontling-lost-american-language-000000145.htm
Visit Booneville and the Anderson Valley, have a beer from the Anderson Valley Brewing Company and just groove on the nature, or however you say that in Boontling
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About Jan Tucker
The Detectives Diary is an innovative tool combining Private Investigation and Journalism. In 1984, Steve Harvey's Los Angeles Times "Around the Southland" Column entitled Jan Tucker's program of providing low-cost "Opposition Research" services to indigent and working class candidates for public office, "Take Cover: Hired Mudslinger Rides into Town." A 1996 Los Angeles Times article by Henry Chu carried a sub-headline identifying Tucker as a "P.R. Guru." In November 2012, Tucker became Criminal Justice Columnist for Counter Punch Magazine and a commentator for Black Talk Radio.
As a private investigator since 1979 and a former First Vice President of Newspaper Guild Local 69, Tucker takes these skills to a new level in the pages of the Detectives Diary with insightful and unique exposures and analysis of history and current events.
State Director--California League of Latinos And Chicanos, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
