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October 23,1997 The Desert Sun
Dear Editor I asked a friend about having her son in a bilingual education class and about having bilingual education stop. Her opinion was this, that she agrees and supports the plan to end bilingual education. She was raised speaking her native language, wich is spanish, and she told me that when she was young, she had bilingual classes. Her experience is that didn't help her too much, because her english is not as good as it should be. If she would have been in an english only class, she would be speaking better english today. She said she knew already, or was going to learn even if her school didn't teach it, because she has mexican parents and speak only spanish at home. My friend told me her son came home a couple of weeks ago with a letter from his teacher saying that her son would be better in a bilingual speaking class, but she strongly refused to do that. She send her son's teacher a letter telling him that she wanted her son to stay in a just english speaking class. Now her son is still in an english only class and she said her son is doing very well. Her son's english is improving. Her opinion is that she is very happy about her decision she made for her son, because she knows this is the best for his future. 1-think bilingual classes shoul end, because in my experience it is affecting my english language. My first four years of elementary school. I had spanish reading only because I knew how to read spanish. My opinion is that if those four years I would of had english reading my english would be easier for me to understand what I read, spanish reading just made english reading more difficult for me to understand. Sincerelly Ilda Rivera
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