Kindergarten event disrupted by ‘English only’ chant
*The kindergarten class that staged the event is 50 percent Latino. Between 1990 and 2000 the Latino population in Perry, Iowa, increased from 1 percent to 25 percent. Most of the newcomers work in a meat-packing plant.VL
By MacKenzie Elmer, Des Moines Register
A man stood up and shouted “English only, USA” at a kindergarten spring concert in Perry on Thursday.
Jim Caufield of ThePerryNews.com posted a video sent to him by a witness at the event. The news site said the outburst occurred at the start of the program while an interpreter was producing a Spanish version of remarks that were spoken.
An unidentified man in the audience during the kindergarten concert at the Perry Performing Arts Center can be seen in the video repeatedly yelling: “USA, English only.”
School staff escorted the man from the building …
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[Screenshot courtesy of Jeremy Golumski/YouTube]