All children learn to read and write in about the first and second grade. If a child is exposed to English and learns to speak it then he or she should be able to learn to read and write English with the native speakers. That is how children are programmed to learn. If a child cannot speak English they have no hope of learning to write it either. If placed into an English immersion program the child will learn to speak the language much faster then in a bilingual program that only teaches English for 30 minutes a day.
Many parents oppose bilingual education.
Much arguing has gone on about bilingual education, but little of it consulted the parents of the children involved. Large revolts like these caught public notice, and helped emphasize that the parents of the children being forced into bilingual education did not want this mis-education of their children to continue and this in turn helped to pace the Unz initiative onto the June 1998 ballet. Once again, officials who supposedly knew what was best dismissed the parent s wishes. In an article by Alice Callaghan in 1997 titled Desperate to learn English she describes how a Mexican immigrant family fought to get their children out of bilingual education so that the children could learn to speak English. The children learn that at home.