Posted on 10/06/2011 2:50:17 PM PDT by dangus
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I regret I can’t recall the source, but here’s the definitive
statement on bilingualism: a blessing for individuals,
a curse for a nation.
Don’t let’em fool ya. BE is a terrible curse on the poor shmucks sentenced by it to grinding poverty and illiteracy.
Seems you’ve abandoned the other thread, but the answers there fit this one, too.
Texas minorities do better than students in other States and better than the National average on standardized tests. http://www.willisms.com/archives/2011/03/trivia_tidbit_o_924.html
Rossell’s data shows that the discrepancies diminish in the higher grades.
Rossell’s thesis that bilingual education is ineffective and/or not offered to parents appears faulty, as evidenced by her own table on page 18. Children in the lower grades are enrolled in Bilingual Education, but in the higher grades, the number is less than 1% and in grades 10-12 it’s less than 0.5% .
Your own source, also refutes your claim that we keep Hispanic students in bilingual education:
http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2009-09-RR01-bilingual-rossell.pdf
The Act asserts the superiority of native-tongue instruction
and requires the districts affected to offer:
• a bilingual education program in elementary
school beginning with kindergarten;
• a choice of bilingual education, instruction in
English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL), or other
transitional language instruction approved by
the agency in middle school; and
• English-as-a-Second-Language in grades 9
through 12.
Since we are now homeschooling I don’t have to put up with teaching my sons spanish or hearing them speak it.
You’re claiming that documentation that Texas requires six years of mandatory bilingual education (when even the theoretical practice of it was only for three years) somehow refutes my contention?
As for the success of minorities in Texas, read my conversation earlier in the thread. And how does the fact that BE isn’t used in grades 10-12 prove that BE isn’t ineffective?
Go look at her data, and see how BE students score 27% lower on tests than other language-minority English learners... even when the most struggling BE students, (a majority!) are exempted from the tests! You tell me how that is evidence of success.
You’re claiming that documentation that Texas requires six years of mandatory bilingual education (when even the theoretical practice of it was only for three years) somehow refutes my contention?
As for the success of minorities in Texas, read my conversation earlier in the thread. And how does the fact that BE isn’t used in grades 10-12 prove that BE isn’t ineffective?
Go look at her data, and see how BE students score 27% lower on tests than other language-minority English learners... even when the most struggling BE students, (a majority!) are exempted from the tests! You tell me how that is evidence of success.
Oh, and I didn’t abandon any threads. I’ve answered all questions and objections from any threads.
Yes, BE is a curse, for those forced into it and for all
of us. By a “blessing” I meant 2nd language acquisition
by those fluent (or soon to be fluent, for children) in
the majority language. Think of Icelanders, or Finns.
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