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Bilinqual education? By: Judit Sarossy
The bilinqual education inhuman, stupid, and unfair. Also what a waste of money. If you move to Italy, you speak Italian. If you visit your friend's house you do not ask them to change their home because their taste is differ from yours. People who came to this country they choosed to come and live here.If they choosed to come they should accept the language and the customs of this country. Babel will not help anyone. The most important thing which make us different from animals is that we think and we communicate. How can somebody efficiently communicate if do not speaks the language? My idea about being fair is: Give to the new immigrants finacial loan - like we do with American kids -so they could afford to take classes. On the other hand we should establish volunteer organizations to take over the task, don't do it with taxpayer's money. Use the money to educate the American students. The system is unfair, because the kids who are studying in bilinqual classes never will learn English and will be excluded from the main stream society. They will not have a chance to receive higher education, or get a better job if we keep them on a low level financially and intellectually. We even promote crime by excluding them from the main stream. In many cases their only way to have wealth will be through commiting crime. My story is simple, but true. I came to the U.S.A.from Hungary with my daughter about 11 years ago. My daughter was only 13. The shcool put her in a bilinqual class, where she learned nothing, for a simple reason, all of her classmates'English was worst than hers. After few months, and after fights with the school she was finally able to attend regular classes. Of course her English was in 3 moths better than my husband's daughter's (who borne in the U.S.A.), but it had nothing to do with ESL classes. She studied at home on her on.Children pick up a foreign language very quickly if we do not inhibit them. She received her B.S. degree last year with honor and with great grades, she was also for a year in Germany on a very prestious program for a year, where she was the first student from the U.S.A. to be accepted in the most famous business college in Europe (the school accept only about 60 students a year from all over from Europe). I think her succes is a prove that we do not need bilinqual education. Kids are smarter than we think they are. Her story does not stands alone, I know a lots of parents who went through the same struggle, and they had to educate their kids at home. |