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Show Wave Tm Spofcm Mtdwy Recently? wish to try from the outside to change the conditions of the people are the ones w ho fled. If these people stay in their country, coun-try, they are surely imprisoned and sometimes put to death. We also think of these people peo-ple as being uneducated, but the countries of Laos and Yiei-nam Yiei-nam have excellent elementary elemen-tary education for the young. They are simply not educated in the things we are educated in. Mr. Shreve says that even though they ha e a huge culture cul-ture gap. the students in his classes try very ha' d to learn to be American and iO be assimilated assimil-ated into our way of life. PKOPLE who work and try so hard for the simple freedoms free-doms that we already enjoy, are indeed heroes of the kind that brought about our revolution revolu-tion and ga e us w hat w e have today. We should treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve. By ANGIE ABRAM Well, if you had. you w ould know that it has no relationship relation-ship to our English language. Their culture, in fact, has little in common with our American culture. THINK, if you will, about all of those people who have to spend months and years to learn our language, an exquisite ex-quisite torture, right? Well, some people are brave enough to brave guns, imprisonment impris-onment and even death to have a chance at learning our English En-glish inconsistencies. They come from Vietnam. Thailand. Laos and other nations, on small boats without food, and sometimes family, in darkness with danger lurking nearby. AFTER escaping these dangerous, dan-gerous, perilous and harrowing harrow-ing experiences, choose to come to America. You, like me, might ask what kind of program do they go to to learn English, right? Well, they go into a unique "English as a second language," program. The ESL classes are taught by Mr. Shreve, who splits his time between Davis and the junior high. He has 20 pupils from those repressed societies of East Asia, the countries that force their people to become refugees to escape their tyranny. THIS IS not to say that these refugees are and were poor, uneducated people, those are not the ones to flee Communism. Commun-ism. The rich and affluent who have had their money and possessions pos-sessions taken away and shared with the invaders, and the free people who once had a voice in their government and |