Learning Spanish can be very useful for a career with The Border Patrol, landscaping, Corrections, law enforcement, or as a social worker.
I have no issue with classes in Spanish as a foreign language course. The teaching in Spanish referred to here is teaching other courses like History and Science, ect. in Spanish because many students don’t comprehend English enough to learn if the course is taught in English.
Sure being bilingual is great, so let these kids learn English. Among other things, this is about aiding, abetting and encouraging the Spanish only crowd who probably aren’t legal to begin with. And it’s about having to pay more for teachers to accommodate them.
This is about making them disabled in English, by not teaching them in English, thereby destroying their educational attaintment AND creating a huge cultural divisions in our state.
TAKS tests results for bilingual ed kids are absymal.
Bilingual education is bad for kids.