Education Gap
In the United States, education gap is a real problem for many minority students. We live in a multicultural society with various ideas about what success means and not every child is encouraged to pursue higher education, some students have a cultural mentality that varies from the rest. Education can easily become overwhelming for foreigners because of the diverse cultures, different ethnicities, and languages. Language is a barrier to some students who do not even know English and despite this, they are placed in classrooms with the rest of the students. Additionally, children struggle with school because they cannot understand what the teacher is saying, they also lack social interaction with peers. That certainly is not …show more content…
The program works by transforming monolingual speakers of either English or Spanish into fully bilingual students. I am proposing this program because several children migrate with their parents to the U.S. without prior knowledge of English. Children struggle to learn the same lessons their classmate’s study since they do not have the same language (Gandara 5). Academically extraordinary student and top of her class, my sister was nine when she started elementary school in the U.S. just days after arriving from Mexico. After starting school in America she went through depression after “failing” at everything. After some weeks of struggle, my sister entered a magnet school with a Dual-Language and Two-Way Immersion Program. I saw in person the huge difference and impact the program caused, it helped her to graduate from elementary with a high score and entered in a good high school with double honors. Gandara talks about dual-lingual and immersion programs give equal status to both languages as well as extra benefits like increasing their wealth by promoting optimistic intergroup relations. Fixing the difference of languages with bilingual programs is a great beginning because it will help students to learn and perform better at school. For some children, their own language becomes a problem when their culture clash with the new
In the United States, education gap is a real problem for many minority students. We live in a multicultural society with various ideas about what success means and not every child is encouraged to pursue higher education, some students have a cultural mentality that varies from the rest. Education can easily become overwhelming for foreigners because of the diverse cultures, different ethnicities, and languages. Language is a barrier to some students who do not even know English and despite this, they are placed in classrooms with the rest of the students. Additionally, children struggle with school because they cannot understand what the teacher is saying, they also lack social interaction with peers. That certainly is not …show more content…
The program works by transforming monolingual speakers of either English or Spanish into fully bilingual students. I am proposing this program because several children migrate with their parents to the U.S. without prior knowledge of English. Children struggle to learn the same lessons their classmate’s study since they do not have the same language (Gandara 5). Academically extraordinary student and top of her class, my sister was nine when she started elementary school in the U.S. just days after arriving from Mexico. After starting school in America she went through depression after “failing” at everything. After some weeks of struggle, my sister entered a magnet school with a Dual-Language and Two-Way Immersion Program. I saw in person the huge difference and impact the program caused, it helped her to graduate from elementary with a high score and entered in a good high school with double honors. Gandara talks about dual-lingual and immersion programs give equal status to both languages as well as extra benefits like increasing their wealth by promoting optimistic intergroup relations. Fixing the difference of languages with bilingual programs is a great beginning because it will help students to learn and perform better at school. For some children, their own language becomes a problem when their culture clash with the new