Bilingual Education
Get rid of bilingual education – please. Here in Texas, 60 percent of all high school students that have been classified with having limited English proficiency (LEP), have been attending U.S schools for five years or more. Experts thinks the reason to LEP is that students have gotten poor bilingual- or English as a second language instruction in earlier grades, or that they often are forced to change schools when their family move around. I think we should look at bilingual education in itself as the source. Reports done in New York conclude that children qualified more rapidly for mainstream classes if they came from English as a second language program, than they did when they came from bilingual one.
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