Official Language Should be English

An article that I found that could be useful to my paper is called “Toward making English the official tongue” and the main point of this article is to point out how much other languages such as Spanish are becoming more and more seen in America and could cause problems within the US. The American workforce is said to be mostly immigrant workers in the coming years and if they don’t speak English that could be a problem because English is how people speak to one another in America. Many schools across America are already having to hire more bilingual or multilingual teachers so that they can instruct many types of students instead of just the ones that speak English. This could be a problem though because costs could go up within school systems that wouldn’t be necessary if everyone had to learn English. English has always been the sole language of America and with a lot of foreign people coming into America there is a lot of miscommunication going on. There is nothing wrong with foreign people coming to America, but if they do come they should make learning English a priority. Without English people can’t communicate to government officials or in school systems very well. Also, the author states that with the push to get other languages involved with government and school systems there is so much changing that would have to go on and then it is like America is not the same. America can still be the ‘Melting Pot’ and have many cultures by assimilating, but we need to have a central language that can connect all cultures and languages for the purpose of communication.