{"id":1365,"date":"2005-02-19T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T06:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/19\/judge-to-immigrant-mothers-learn-english-or-lose-your-kids\/"},"modified":"2005-02-19T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T06:31:18","slug":"judge-to-immigrant-mothers-learn-english-or-lose-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"Judge to Immigrant Mothers: Learn English or Lose Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is utterly disgusting. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-english14feb14,0,7602461.story?coll=la-home-nation\">LA Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A judge hearing child abuse and neglect cases in Tennessee has given an unusual instruction to some immigrant mothers who have come before him: Learn English, or else.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, it was an 18-year-old woman from Oaxaca, Mexico, who had been reported to the Department of Children&#8217;s Services for failing to immunize her toddler and show up for appointments. At a hearing last month to monitor the mother&#8217;s custody of the child, Wilson County Judge Barry Tatum instructed the woman to learn English and to use birth control, the Lebanon Democrat newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Tatum gave a similar order to a Mexican woman who had been cited for neglect of her 11-year-old daughter, said a lawyer who is representing the woman in her appeal. Setting a court date six months away, the judge told the woman she should be able to speak English at a fourth-grade level by that meeting. If she failed, he warned, he would begin the process of termination of parental rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-english14feb14,0,7602461.story?coll=la-home-nation\">Full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is utterly disgusting. From the LA Times: A judge hearing child abuse and neglect cases in Tennessee has given an unusual instruction to some immigrant mothers who have come before him: Learn English, or else. Most recently, it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}