Lethal translations: California wants to ban child interpreters. “‘She tells me where it hurts and then we go to the doctor together. But I don’t really know what a uterus is,’ said Jue, whose English is peppered with words from his sixth-grade textbooks and terms from the football field. ‘She tells me things I don’t know how to say. Sometimes I tell the doctor something else.'”
This is definitely a good idea. But of course, hospitals and clinics will have the pony up the costs of expanded translator services. Is the government willing to back up these bills with appropriate funding?
