English Only Driving Test

Today in the Nashville City Paper is an article about a bill running through the Tennessee State legislature to have our driving test in English only. The opposition to this is saying that it discriminates against foreign born citizen. I think it does. First of all how can you pass a law that forces someone to read a language that is not that countries official language. That right the United States has no official language. How is that fair? Now, if the US Congress or the Tennessee State Legislature passed a law that would make our official language English this law would not be discriminatory. But that is not the case yet. Plus I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon because if it does it will have 2 official languages like Canada, English and French.

So Republican State Senator Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro said that "The logic... is to keep car passengers safe from drivers who can't speak English and may not know the rules of the road because they can't read some road signs." I have 2 responses to that. Has the Senator ever heard of International Driving standards? That a stop sign in Mexico is the same shape and color as a stop sign in the US? That the basic rules are the same? Secondly, if you want to make sure the that driver know the rules of the road, make the driving test harder. I can give you thousands of examples of English speaking drivers that don't know the rules of the road. Could solve 2 problems at once. Hmm??

Anyway I think this bill is discriminatory and is a bad thing to pass.