Bill\’s Point of View:

Thanks to a reader of ClearysNoteBook I obtained a copy of a new law that was passed by the Senate and General Assembly of New Jersey that gives special privileges to students who don\’t speak English to opt out of taking certain test unless it is written in the individual\’s language.

The law appears to include other statewide tests, not just those given to a student. For example the law would pertain to the tests given to obtain a New Jersey drivers license or hunting license.

The legislation (Assembly Bill, No. 969) was sponsored by: Assemblywoman NILSA CRUZ-PEREZ District 5 (Camden and Gloucester Counties), Assemblyman JOSEPH J. ROBERTS, JR. also of District 5, Assemblyman VINCENT PRIETO District 32 (Bergen and Hudson), Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE, District 37 (Bergen).

No doubt someone will have to pay for the test to be written in Spanish, Arabic or whatever language the individual speaks. And then there will be extra cost to hire people qualified to speak the foreign language to score the test.

The state is bankrupt yet those in charge continue to find ways to waste our tax dollars.

I don\’t know about you but I am upset. When our forefathers came to this country so many years ago, be they Irish, Italian, Polish, German etc., they had to learn the English language or they wouldn\’t survive.

Why do the Liberals who control our State government feel it necessary to give the minorities of today special treatment?

This is America. The language that is spoken in this country is English. Yet for some reason those who make the laws in New Jersey continually bend over backwards to appease the whims of a certain few.

I said it before and will say it again. ONLY IN NEW JERSEY!

ASSEMBLY, No. 969 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 213th LEGISLATURE

SYNOPSIS

Provides that student of limited English-speaking ability shall not be required to take certain tests. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

An Act concerning the testing of students of limited English-speaking ability and supplementing P.L.1974, c.197 (C.18A:35-15 et seq.).

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.1979, c.241 (C.18A:7C-1 et seq.) or any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a student of limited English-speaking ability who is identified as such pursuant to P.L.1974, c.197 (C.18A:35-15 et seq.) shall not be required to take any diagnostic, standardized, Statewide, or district-wide test in English which has not been designed or normed for non-native speakers of English until the student has been in a State-approved program for at least two academic years, except that the student may be given the option of taking any test in English, or may be required to take a standardized test or undergo other assessment in the native language of the student in order to measure certain abilities or general academic progress.

• This act shall take effect immediately.

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 Beloved daughter of the late Alma and Joseph Remy. Ms. Smulling was a former employee of Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, a member of Audubon Chapter #191, OES for over 50 years and as active member of the Audubon United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir.

 Interment private at the convenience of the family.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Saint Maurice Chruch, Brooklawn, for Alberta R. Lipsett, 82, of Brooklawn, who died May 9 at Underwood Memorial Hospital.

Alberta was born in Philadelphia, she resided in Paulsboro before moving to Brooklawn in 1976. She was a manager at Ponzio’s Restaurant in Brooklawn for 50 years, retiring in 2001. She was a communicant of St. Maurice Church in Brooklawn.

Alberta is survived by 2 sisters, Dorothy Wisely of Boca Raton, FL and Edna Szedlmeyer of Prospect Park, PA and many nieces and nephews.

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Funeral Services were held for Mary C. \”Nan\” Auletto, 79, of Mount Ephraim, formerly of Haddon Heights, who died May 9.

 
Beloved wife of the late Dominic L. Devoted mother of Donna Madrack (Gerald), Joseph Auletto (Patricia) and Mary C. Malason (Stephen Papai) and the late Bruce L. and Dominic L., Jr. Loving grandmother of Sharon, Anthony (Leslie), Jerry, Karl, Nicole, Michael and Marci.

 
Dear great-grandmother of 4. Mother-in-law of Lorraine Auletto.

 

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Original post November 06, 2007

I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed.

Within a week I had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table…everywhere.

Then some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud:
They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn\’t even sit on my own back porch anymore.
I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone.

I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like it used to be…… quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let\’s see……. our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.

Then the illegal\’s came by the hundreds of thousands.

Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor: your child\’s 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn\’t speak English: Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press \’one\’ to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than Our Flag are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

Maybe it\’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

submitted by John Hillman

Only In NJ: Special Treatment For Those Who Don\’t Speak English