nbcmiami.com is reporting that all Florida driver license exams will soon be only available in English, the state announced today. Beginning Feb. 6, all driver license knowledge and skills examinations will be administered exclusively in English, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said.
The change applies to all driver license classifications and oral exams. The state had previously offered exams for most non-commercial driver's licenses in multiple languages, with commercial learner's permit and commercial driver license exams only available in English and Spanish.
The department said they've updated the driver license testing system statewide to implemet the change and said language translation services will no longer be permitted for knowledge or skills exams. Printed exams in languages other than English will also be removed.
"FLHSMV remains committed to ensuring safe roadways for all Floridians and visitors by promoting clear communication, understanding of traffic laws, and responsible driving behavior," the department said in a statement.
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Seems some people conveniently forgot that immigration included being proficient in the language and to not be on social services. Democracy was cool that way. But don't forget the immigration laws have been ignored long enough that we are finding people hidden up to fifty years.
ReplyDeleteLegal immigration requires that.
DeleteApparently illegal aliens get all sorts of things that legal immigrants can't access.
Look,am fine with these tests being in English but what about our sight impaired drivers,they will still have a braille option won't they?
ReplyDeleteTheodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
ReplyDelete"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American ... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag ... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt 1907