Bilingual Education Arguments

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The Fight for Bilingual Education Students would benefit from bilingual education in public schools because it would encourage better communication skills, support other heritages, and it also opens an opportunity to gain knowledge in multiple languages. Learning bilingual language at an early age assists with functioning vocabulary and also enhancing academic achievement. In California, the chairman of the state Republican Party disapproved non-English speakers to learn English not knowing the fact that it helps better with their education. Mandating bilingual education in public schools allows all learners to achieve better grades, prepares students for more job opportunities and enhances more interest in a new culture.
Bilingual language has been revoked in certain public schools in the United States due to the subject not being very meaningful to the syllabus. Being bilingual give students at a young age a choice in school of learning a new language besides their own and they also do not encounter difficulty with language confusion. Most schools feel the need that the English language would be ignored from bilingual languages that are being taught in most schools today. (Bilingual Education is Necessary)
Parents and teacher as well consider teaching children another language at an early age would setback their
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Most schools want bilingual languages to be a graduation requirement because it promotes foreign languages to look very professional on a high school resume depending on the student’s major. If other languages are being educated in high schools today, it would be a great liberty for students today to be more involved in foreign countries. The more students learn about a different language they more they get interested in jobs as they get older or culture they were not born in. Bilingualism is accepted in the world

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