I have honestly never taken politics into much consideration because I wasn't aware of the impact it has to bilingual education. I knew politics always had a connection with society, but to this degree. The changes the policies they create are constant and numbing to our students success. To them, it's all about the numbers. State testing scores, students are referred as ID numbers that follow them until college, only to receive a new set of numbers. When policies are passed they are not from the teachers perspective, they are based on society as a whole. It's a business to them. Who can get the highest scores, how much money can they lose or gain from their performance? It's wrong, to place that pressure on students and teachers. Our job is
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I always had believed that the decisions politicians made on bilingual education were based more than just linguistic barriers, and even when sociological and psychological studies have also conducted the outcome of these policies is still very weak and in that also very consistent. I never understood why teachers were constantly observed by superintendents and principals. Now it's beginning to make sense. I never truly connected politics, their policies, and bilingual education, until now. I realized in the chapters we read not only in this class unit but in other courses I'm currently taking as well. It's a pattern and a consistent one. Instead of the government and school systems facilitating resources for our school to provide the proper bilingual education we are faced with constant struggles. The film we previously watched makes me realize how long this has been going on. Yes, at the end of the film they proved they were capable of passing the college credit exam, but they shouldn't have been faced with that alternative, but society couldn't believe with that the resources they were provided they were able to achieve such high scores. They forgot about the teacher that went the distance to achieve this because of their lack of
I always had believed that the decisions politicians made on bilingual education were based more than just linguistic barriers, and even when sociological and psychological studies have also conducted the outcome of these policies is still very weak and in that also very consistent. I never understood why teachers were constantly observed by superintendents and principals. Now it's beginning to make sense. I never truly connected politics, their policies, and bilingual education, until now. I realized in the chapters we read not only in this class unit but in other courses I'm currently taking as well. It's a pattern and a consistent one. Instead of the government and school systems facilitating resources for our school to provide the proper bilingual education we are faced with constant struggles. The film we previously watched makes me realize how long this has been going on. Yes, at the end of the film they proved they were capable of passing the college credit exam, but they shouldn't have been faced with that alternative, but society couldn't believe with that the resources they were provided they were able to achieve such high scores. They forgot about the teacher that went the distance to achieve this because of their lack of