Joey Griffiths
Block 2
CIS Writing
Bilingual Education Needed The United States has become an enormous melting pot of ethnic cultures and people. Education is as important as the oxygen we breathe every day. Everyone learns differently. Some people struggle to learn, and some do not have the opportunity because their native language is not English. Bilingual education allows students who are learning English as a second language to take classes in their native language while simultaneously learning English. This gives the student better opportunities to learn and excel in school. There are many complaints about how unfair the education system is to different races. William Buckley shows us that complaining really does nothing in Why Don’t We Complain. The students are then able to take steps forward in school, while learning the English instead of jumping right into the English language and trying to learn that way.
In my experiences from traveling to Mexico I didn't understand the language spoken there. I had trouble reading the language and especially hearing it. This made my trip extremely difficult, because I had to get around the city …show more content…
These immigrants need to learn the dominant language. Without bilingual education these immigrants are set up to fail. NABE or National Association for Bilingual Education points out that bilingual education benefits the students extraordinarly, “When schools provide children quality education in their primary language, they give them two things: knowledge and literacy”. If they are forced into speaking a foreign language they are set back with a huge disadvantage, and this setback will most likely slow down their learning capabilities. Families of immigrants will blend in with society slower without the help of bilingual education. Without bilingual education they might fail out of school, and could possibly lose hope of
Block 2
CIS Writing
Bilingual Education Needed The United States has become an enormous melting pot of ethnic cultures and people. Education is as important as the oxygen we breathe every day. Everyone learns differently. Some people struggle to learn, and some do not have the opportunity because their native language is not English. Bilingual education allows students who are learning English as a second language to take classes in their native language while simultaneously learning English. This gives the student better opportunities to learn and excel in school. There are many complaints about how unfair the education system is to different races. William Buckley shows us that complaining really does nothing in Why Don’t We Complain. The students are then able to take steps forward in school, while learning the English instead of jumping right into the English language and trying to learn that way.
In my experiences from traveling to Mexico I didn't understand the language spoken there. I had trouble reading the language and especially hearing it. This made my trip extremely difficult, because I had to get around the city …show more content…
These immigrants need to learn the dominant language. Without bilingual education these immigrants are set up to fail. NABE or National Association for Bilingual Education points out that bilingual education benefits the students extraordinarly, “When schools provide children quality education in their primary language, they give them two things: knowledge and literacy”. If they are forced into speaking a foreign language they are set back with a huge disadvantage, and this setback will most likely slow down their learning capabilities. Families of immigrants will blend in with society slower without the help of bilingual education. Without bilingual education they might fail out of school, and could possibly lose hope of