Toby Roth: “the gentleman is obfuscating the amendment again and what is behind the amendment. These kids are not out in 3 years.…”

“the gentleman is obfuscating the amendment again and what is behind the amendment. These kids are not out in 3 years. Sometimes they are in until the seventh or eighth grade and they are nonproficient in either language. That is why the dropout rate is so high, because of bilingualism. When this was brought in in 1968, they said it was going to be here because the dropout rate is so high. The dropout rate is higher today than it was in 1968. Here I have a note from Charles Pacheco, an ex-marine who was born here in the United States. His daughter was placed in the bilingual program, not because she did not speak English but because of her Hispanic name, and he tried to get her out of that class and could not get her out. So we are not going to put kids in there and have you tell me they can take them out right away, because we have heard time and time again that it is impossible to get them out.”