to talk to his parents. The nuns asked the parents to talk with their children in English at home to improve their ability to speak English language. His parents took the suggestion of the nuns of forcing their children to speak English at home. On one hand this action of the nuns and also action of his parents to not speak Spanish at all meant to help him to assimilate with the American environment, but on the other hand it also took away his family privacy and also his language of intimacy. Mr. Rodriguez felt like he was pushed away by his own family, he also felt that members of his family were no longer so close and bound tightly together as they were before (Rodriguez, 1982). The private times when the family was together they were hardly talking to each other. The children were talking to each other in English and the parents were usually silent. His father could not speak proper English and he was also ashamed about his English because his children laughed about his grammar and pronunciation mistakes. And his mother was acting the same way. This is why Mr. Rodriguez felt like an outsider.
             The bilingual education slows down the learning ability because the people do not think in English; they translate the English words in their native la
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