A 16-year-old who speaks English also speaks his parents’ language and is suspended from school for speaking his home language in the hallway, not in class. A nightmare from the early 20th century? No. Today’s Kansas City-area schools. Fortunately, the superintendent of the district rescinded the punishment, but civil-rights advocates are still fuming, and rightly so. This has nothing to do with the language of instruction and everything to do with the politics of language.
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