In a blog post for Education Week, teacher Justin Minkel wrote:

The most contentious blunder to come out of the Super Bowl was not that first comic snap that arced past a bewildered Peyton Manning.  It wasn’t the two tipped interceptions that followed that slip-up, or Joe Namath’s fur-coated Macklemore impression during the coin toss that proceeded it.

It was the audacity of Coke’s claim that there are people in the world who speak languages that aren’t English, and that some of those people might love America.

The article, Super Bowl Fury: “Speak English!“,  continues with a discussion of the “damaging consequences to kids” of language loss and English-only laws, including what teachers can do to help prevent language loss.

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