Copying Sandra's words, My grandparents and same with my husbands grandparents
also came to this country and immersed themselves in the culture and language, manged to obtain jobs and succeed and later raise a family and maintain both their cultural heritage and their language while at the same time, learn what it meant to be an American, including learning the language.
If I was to go live in a non-english speaking country
I would learn or try to learn the language.
I also think it's a shame it is not
manditory for our children not to learn
spanish as a secondary language starting in grammer school.
JMHO
As for the children.
My sister is a bilingual teacher for the public
Unified school system for grammer school.
Kids at that age are like sponges and learn very fast.
She does not support the bilingual program!
(when she was in college she was very pro, but
once she started teaching, she saw that
it kept the spanish speaking students behind.
As a bilingual teacher, with the permission
from their parents, she teaches the non-
english speaking children in English
with some spanish.
By the time they are out of her
class, they understand and can do the work
in English. Other bilingual teachers, only
teach their kids in Spanish with very little or no english.
These children go through semester, through
semester having trouble with English, and
remain behind, the other English speaking
students. Who is this program hurting?
THe children.
My sister has never come across a parent that
did not want their child not to learn in English.
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