Bilingual Education I am sure that if I was improperly placed in a bilingual program, others have also. How does this happen? What “characteristics” show school officials that a student needs the classes to begin with? These officials seem to think that standardized tests and parent questionnaires will identify who is in need of ESL, but this system allows students who are not really LEP to be placed in the program. And in order to …showed first 75 words of 1163 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1163 total…believe that by doing away with bilingual education we do away with our culture, while others consider it to be discriminatory, but it’s time to see reality: bilingualism does not work. It never has and it never will. If we continue to support it, we will only be hurting those students who “will remain forever behind their native English-speaking counterparts …” California found that out, but how long will it take the rest of us?