Every time a student becomes proficient in English the school looses its extra funding. The futures of these children are being denied for purely selfish, ignorant reasons. No actual bases, except money, are created for the continuation of bilingual education. One cannot be provided because there is no reason for holding America s future back . Understanding of statistical studies Everyday Latino children drop out of school because they are forced into seeking work to help with family funding, therefore loosing their chance to truly become proficient in English, because they spend most of their time in Bilingual programs that are nothing more then Spanish classes.
Statistics prove that bilingual education has failed.
English speaking children are not declared proficient in understanding English until about 14 or 15 years old. They are continually tested through standardized testing to make sure that English-speaking children are on an average level of understanding. 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.