I was inmersed in English and flourished. You can t even tell I am not an Anglo. My first exposure to bilingual education was my friend Betty. Her English was atrocious, with such a marked accent that I thought she was a new immigrant. She was born and raised here, a product of bilingual education.
Bilingual education does a disservice to our students.
It is a wonderful advantage to master two languages, but with bilingual education I am afraid we are becoming illiterate in two languages. Texas It saddened me to find that politicians people who have no idea of what goes on inside a classroom will be deciding what is best for our bilingual children. I am a bilingual teacher. Last year the students in our bilingual program outscored every other fifth-grade class in the entire district. They outscored every other ethnic group and school.