Daily Pilot

Thursday, March 19, 1998

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
The Apostles Were Multilingual

It's interesting that Wendy Leece finds the state Board of Education's proclamation on bilingual education an answer to a prayer and comparable to divine intervention in the parting of the Red Sea and destruction of the walls of Jericho. I wonder how she'd interpret the scriptural happenings after Pentecost, when all from every nation heard the apostles speak in their own tongue. If we were to follow Leece's belief that God had a special preference for a particular pedagogy, it would seem the Lord favored not only bilingual but multilingual education.

JEAN AND FRANK FORBATH
Costa Mesa