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The controversy of whether bilingual education is right or wrong has been persistently disputed throughout the years. Bilingual schooling is an educational program for children whose native language is not English. ...
With a new phase of bilingual schooled children, statistics showed a mere improvement. Numerous effects of the bilingual programs were beginning to show signs of error. ... In the 1970’s, numerous ideas were presented about bilingual teaching. ... ” According to this theory, Mexican-American children in the United States are so different from the “majority” children that they must be given bilingual and bicultural instruction in order to achieve academic success (Porter par. ... Another man in favor of bilingual education was Jim Cummins, a bilingual-education theorist. ... The bilingual education program was being praised by many highly educated adults. ... Also, stress is not higher among children who are introduced to English from the first day of school—though self-esteem and stress are the issues most often mentioned by supporters of bilingual teaching (Porter par. ...
Bilingual educators say today that children lose a degree of “individuality” by becoming assimilated into public society (Rodriguez 351). ... They were charging that because their children routinely remained segregated in bilingual programs, these children were not receiving adequate instruction in English, “the crucial skill that leads to equal opportunity in schooling, jobs, and public life in the United States” (Porter par.
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