Why does America need to Reform Bilingual Education ?

Question

Why is so important for all Americans to learn a second language at young age?

Answer 1

they need to end it

Answer 2

There should be no bilingual ed, because it's almost impossible to become fluent in a second language after childhood. It's a brain thing. Not teaching children English while there is that door of opportunity is horrible for the child. Additionally, some kids are slow, and will always be slow. For those kids it will be impossible to learn English as adults. The whole bilingual ed thing is really a means of getting a few people very rich.

Answer 3

Given that 28.1 Million Americans speak Spanish frequently at home, it seems to me that learning it would be a good idea for any American. Speaking languages broadens the mind and promotes respect for other cultures - the more, the better. America is a country made up of diverse ethnic origins, whilst the original aim of patriotic, English education was to unite these diversities, it did encourage English speakers to feel superior to others.
Learning foreign languages helps to overcome this kind of feeling, as well as promote intercultural communication. Learning languages at an early age is natural and easy - why waste the opportunity?

Answer 4

We don't need a reform to bilingual education. Americans wil learn Spanish when it is in their best interest. It is important to learn a second language at at young age because it gets harder as you grow older.

Answer 5

Within 20 years most of the country will need to speak Spanish to hand out all the entitlement materials to the illegals. Congress has ignored the people and is pushing to give away the fruits of all the hard labor of generations that came before. If the dummycrats take over and strip away the incentive to get ahead who will pay for the programs to feed the lazy population?

Answer 6

The myth of Aztlan can best be explained by California's Santa Barbara School District's Chicano Studies textbook, "The Mexican American Heritage" by East Los Angeles high school teacher Carlos Jimenez. On page 84 there is a redrawn map of Mexico and the United States, showing Mexico with a full one-third more territory, all of it taken back from the United States. On page 107, it says "Latinos are now realizing that the power to control Aztlan may once again be in their hands."

Shown are the "repatriated" eight or nine states including Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington. According to the school text, Mexico is supposed to regain these territories as they rightly belong to the "mythical" homeland of Aztlan. On page 86, it says "...a free-trade agreement...promises...if Mexico is to allow the U.S. to invest in Mexico...then Mexico should...be allowed to freely export...Mexican labor. Obviously this would mean a re-evaluation of the border between the two countries as we know it today." Jimenez's Aztlan myth is further amplified at MEChA club meetings held at Santa Barbara Public Schools..

The book, paid for by American tax payers, cites no references or footnotes, leaving school children totally dependent on their teacher to separate fact from opinion and political propaganda. The book teaches separatism, victimization, nationalism, completely lacks patriotism towards the United States, and promotes an open border policy. The book is 100 percent editorial -- the opinions of the author.

Answer 7

I completely help the possibility to income a 2nd language, yet we won't be able to have a rustic it fairly is easily unified if we do not have an common straight forward language. Spanish audio gadget could anticipate that they could learn English to speak in maximum public boards.

Answer 8

Anyone who comes to this Country should learn to speak English. A second language is unnessary.

Answer 9

Because Spanish will become America's second language within 20 years.

Not that I'm for it, but it's a fact.

Answer 10

yes, it needs to be reformed, it needs to go! in california, what passes for bilingual education is this:
teacher speaks spanish as the dominant language in the class
students communicate in spanish
text books are in spanish
bulletin boards are in spanish
cultural lessons are all about mexican people

how do i know this? i have witnessed it for years in schools.

proof: that if we taught in spanish, exclusively spanish, to students at the earliest entry of school, say, kindergarten, english speaking students, black, middle eastern, asian, who are in the country going to school and have english as their primary language in the home.........are fluent in spanish by 2nd grade because they are being taught in spanish. i have seen this.

ya, english speaking students are fluent in spanish due to this immersion that is supposed to be teaching english to mexicans. surely if the rest of the kids can learn spanish in 3 years of immersion, the mexicans can learn english in 3 years too.

and the majority of these mexican children come to school illiterate in both spanish and english....in every sense of the word.

its all rather disturbing if you ask me.

Answer 11

It is not important and we don't do it. We have a language, one language, American.