chools according to their race. Because of this, the treatment and the accommodations of the schools have been biased. One school of a particular race would receive better school supplies and facilities while others may receive little to nothing. It would be almost impossible to equally educate the different cultures if they became, in some form, segregated. Not only would these cultures become isolated, they will also be reduced to numbers and dehumanized. The last thing we want for our children is to have them go to a segregated school because of their culture and the language they were brought up to speak. School is not only a place for education, but it is also a melting pot of many cultures and histories. Isolation breeds ignorance.
Bilingual education has not produced the desired results in the classroom. The accumulated research of the past thirty years reveals almost no justification for teaching children in their native language to help them, learn either English or other subjects. Non English speaking students that were placed in bilingual education did just as well as non English speaking students that were completely immersed in an all English only classroom. Other studies show that self-esteem is not higher among limited English students who were taught in their native languages, and stres
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