In the magazine article “Uneducated Bilingualism”, Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, argues that bilingual education for Hispanics was supposed to be helping children; however, “bilingual programs often devoted so little instruction time to English…children languished in bilingual classrooms for years on end” (106). Due to the fact that this is coming from a Hispanic’s point of view, many people would think that she would be for bilingual education and not against it. In the Race and Racism in the United States article, Yang states that bilingual education is unnecessary because “non-English-speaking European immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries succeeded without federally sponsored bilingual education programs” (116). Many people use this argument today as a reason why bilingual education should be opposed; the non-English speakers of today should learn how to speak the language the way that our ancestors had to learn. I will refute the parts of the argument that say bilingual education is completely detrimental, but will use the majority of it to help persuade the audience that there are negative aspects of bilingual
In the magazine article “Uneducated Bilingualism”, Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, argues that bilingual education for Hispanics was supposed to be helping children; however, “bilingual programs often devoted so little instruction time to English…children languished in bilingual classrooms for years on end” (106). Due to the fact that this is coming from a Hispanic’s point of view, many people would think that she would be for bilingual education and not against it. In the Race and Racism in the United States article, Yang states that bilingual education is unnecessary because “non-English-speaking European immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries succeeded without federally sponsored bilingual education programs” (116). Many people use this argument today as a reason why bilingual education should be opposed; the non-English speakers of today should learn how to speak the language the way that our ancestors had to learn. I will refute the parts of the argument that say bilingual education is completely detrimental, but will use the majority of it to help persuade the audience that there are negative aspects of bilingual