I Would Like to Buy a Vowel

You are in a courtroom as a jury member and the judge has found a mother guilty of child abuse. Do you think the mother should be punished? What if the conviction is for simply speaking to the child in Spanish? That was the situation is in Amarillo, Texas 1995 where Judge Samuel Kiser decided the law could govern what language is spoken at one's home. He told the mother, Marta Laureano that she, under court order, was to speak English to her daughter. The judge overstepped his jurisdiction and tread upon our personal rights. Kiser's judgment would have been fine as an opinion, but it is not acceptable as a ruling. Language should not be denied by the power of law.…