Clearly you do not know your history very well. This country has never been mono-lingual. Our founding fathers almost made the country’s language German (missed by one vote). Dutch and French were also spoken in the various colonies. The first bilingual program was German-English in the northern Midwest of the United States. The legal precedent in California was set because of a Chinese –English program. We are the only first world country in the entire world that insists in teaching in only one language.