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Eliminate Bilingual Education
Title: Eliminate Bilingual Education
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1201 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Eliminate Bilingual Education
Eliminate Bilingual Education
One half of United States children who are not proficient in English live in California, a state who's future depends on these three million children becoming fluent in English. In 1968, the Bilingual Education Act was passed with the theory that if you academically instructed students in their native language first, learning English would be better and faster in the long run. Since the passage of bilingual education, there has been a continuing …showed first 75 words of 1201 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1201 total…others because they cannot speak English makes them feel insecure and different. If anything, the students loose self-esteem and pride, making learning difficult. Bilingual programs are a failure and schools should obey the law and abolish the instruction. "The students will gain whatever added self-esteem they need when they develop proficiency in English, the language in which their peers are learning, and the language that they will need to succeed in the United States" (Netkin 1)
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