Monday, October 8, 2007
Should Bilingual Education Programs Be Abandoned?
This is a subject that i am really concerned on because I'm a product of bilingual education. Year by year the population of immigrants is rising in this country. By immigrants i don't just mean Hispanics that also includes Asians, Europeans, Africans, and many other ethnics backgrounds. Bilingual programs help us to establish a quicker learning process of the English language. With out these programs we would be lost. I was in bilingual classes fro 3 years. I know you it feels to be alienated and to feel out of place. These classes gave me the skills i need to survive in the American way of life. Now i don't mean to be too dramatic but it was hard getting a job or communicating with people outside my house. You are a product of your society now and if society wants to take these programs way it would be a big lost. They would ask you to learn on your own time but does anyone really have time now a days. Its very convenient to have these programs in school as part of our every day curriculum and that my OPINION.
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Hey Gary I sympathize with you because we have experienced similarities. These programs must continue in order to help the kids that need it the most.
I see what you mean about the english language becoming apart of your daily life--because if children and their parents are asked to learn the language on their "free" time...It would never happen. Or-it would take years n it would be what we call today "spanglish." My father is Cuban, and he understands english completely. Ask him to speak it and he'll refuse because he feels like people are going to make fun of him since he doesnt speak it perfectly. I think that theres alot of pressure on people who speak other languages to adapt to the english language, but if it isnt integrated in their daily lives (ie: school) how are they going to learn correctly? And how will they learn to transition from their familiar language to a foreign/new one?
i feel that if you take away bilingual education than america will actually be going backwards. How can you take a country that has been build by people from other places and make it speak strictly one language. I just feel that there is no way that the students can be diverse if they are not taught their native language. Students need to be given the opportunity to keep with their native language becuase it is a part of them. Taking away bilingual education would be like removing a part of the country and its citizens.
i have said this on many blogs already, i think we need to push more than just the languages. we need to teach culture and history. get to more than just how they talk. more about who they are and such. knowing your neighbors is important. if you knew more maybe there would be less fighting in the world
All I have to say is it is called the United States for a reason. I did not think it was right to have Spanish spoken commericals in the United States. Do other countries have English spoken commericals????? No!!!!!!!!
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