Boys Moving On Bilingual Education

Around 1959, bilingual education took flight in the United States. Starting in Miami and quickly making its way San Francisco, bilingual education soon led to the Bilingual Education Act, which promoted “No Child Left Behind”. Only twenty years later, the act acquired the attention of high schools around the country. Nonetheless, bilingual education is not always taken to be the cure-all for acclimating immigrants to the United States. In his article “Aria: A Memoir of Bilingual Childhood”, Richard Rodriguez argues that students should not take part in bilingual education by explaining how it takes away individuality and a sense of family through the use of ethos, diction, and imagery; Rodriguez also uses parallelism and ethos to point out how a bilingual childhood can help students feel connected to society.

America’s education system is one of the most respectable, reputable and sought after commodities in our society, but it is also the most overcrowded, discriminatory, and controversial system ever established. Most people yearn for a higher education because it 's what 's expected in this society in order to get ahead. It means a better job, more money, power, prestige and a sense of entitlement. But this system has let down the children that are supposed to benefit from it. Education discriminates against minorities, and poorer class students are not expected nor encouraged to attain a higher education. The education system is set up to ensure that every child get a basic

The educational system has been around for thousands of years, and throughout time, there have always existed equality issues. From girls not being able to attend school as far as the boys, to children being separated into different schools because of the color of their skin, equality in education is an issue that has plagued humanity for far too long. Throughout the years, there have been some important decisions made in an effort to afford equality in education. Perhaps, as we move forward in our thinking and beliefs, we may find a way to make education a right that everyone who has the desire to grow through knowledge should be afforded, regardless of circumstance.

Bilingual Education where Supporters feel that students miss a great deal by not being taught in their family’s language. That children that retain their family’s language will retain a sense of individuality. Their ethnic heritage & cultural ties. Helping Students acquire the skills of a classroom crucial for public success. Rodriguez also discusses the use of teaching and using a single language.

I stare mesmerized at the Fourth of July fireworks exploding colorfully overhead and struggle to form an intelligible sound. Gurgling and sputtering, I finally spit out the French word “violet” as if by magic. My first word.

“I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is an education,” said Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education. In today's society, many people don’t realize how grateful they should be for the education they receive. Even the slightest education is much more than people were receiving just three centuries ago, and even more than people in countries besides the United States of America. In specifics, women and African Americans were once unable to pursue any form of education in the United States, along with many other ethnicities.

People of all ages constantly learn how to speak multiple languages. Children are taught to become bilingual, which increases their knowledge. A young boy named Richard Rodriguez grew up in San Francisco, California with a household of Spanish speaking family members. Rodriguez barely knew English when he entered his early years of Elementary school. Through the course of his education Rodriguez took note of how different he was from his family, and slowly began to lose his heritage. Rodriguez’s family embarrassed him since he was categorized as a Scholarship boy, which means a good student yet also a troubled son whose moderately endowed (Rodriguez 19).

​The United States is a nation filled with a multitude of different cultures which come alongside with a variety of languages. These languages are what help society to communicate with one another and to expand their horizon of thinking. As the United States progresses so does the culture. The culture of the United States is no longer what it once was. A nation of a predominately Caucasian race, who only speaks one language, is now a thing of the past. The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (English Language Learners) states that from the 1997-1998 school year to the 2008-2009 school year, the number of English Language Learners in public schools increased from 3.5 million to 5.3 million which comes to be a 51 percent increase. They also reported that the overall student population grew to a 7.2 percent increase during this time. A huge generation of a multicultural society is rapidly growing and it is our responsibility as a nation to educate this new generation to its fullest potential. We as a nation can wither choose to ignore the reality of this new generation by forcing one language on students classified as English Language Learners, or we can choose to cultivate the knowledge of language so that this new generation may prosper in more ways than one. We do not want to become a society that promotes, as R.A. Berman summarizes in his statement from his article The Real

Asylees are foreigners that have been admitted to the United States and are unable or unwilling to return to their home country due to persecution or fear of persecution. They need protection from persecution based on their race, religion, membership in a social group, political opinion, or national origin. They are capable of applying when they are in the United States or at a point of entry.

Countless children in need everywhere around the World do not get a quality education where they can learn and develop who they are going to be when they get older. Education is a crucial right, which gives permission to each person to acquire instructions and blossom socially in the society. The right to a proper education is critical for the economic, social, and cultural advancement of all societies. Education requires that its citizens promote an assortment of knowledge. Education is also known to consist of a form of learning that is unavoidable for the development of one’s personality and the type of character they are, as well as substantial and creative capabilities. Education is an individual right which is an obligation to be accessible to everyone in the society, without any discrimination. All children must be able to get an education, and be accountable for the same opportunities to build a future for themselves. Educational information must be equally administered, so that children from disadvantaged

The most important issue facing the world today is still education. We may think that everyone in the United States has an education because of public schools which provide free education. But, that is not true, because around 1.2 million students drop out of high school every year in the U.S. At a worldwide scale, around 31 million students drop out of elementary school in 2012. In addition to that, around 70 million kids in the world don’t have an education in 2010.

According to the US Census, 75 percent of today's immigrants learn to speak English during the first ten years after arriving. As now, not all immigrant students first made good work, but often suffered because their schools were few resources and attention given to their problems with the language was minimal. The study by Thomas and Collier, a comprehensive analysis of 700,000 minority students from 1982-1996, concluded that "only the enrichment bilingual programs long-term quality ... will give them minority students cognitive development and academic ... they need to succeed in English, and to sustain their successes as they reach high school grades. " A more recent study in Arizona in 2000 found that for three consecutive years, students

There are different services I found at the National Association for Bilingual Education. There are different memberships costs, such as the Lifetime Package, for $445.00, Platinum Package, for $585.00, Premium Package, for $515.00, Choice Package for $445.00, Saturday-Only Package, for $285.00 and Parent/Student Package for $310.00. National Association for Bilingual Education is a non-profit membership organization that works to advocate for educational equality and excellence for the bilingual/multilingual student in global society.

Surrounding my high school there are dozens of large trees which line the parking lot and sidewalks. In the autumn, red, orange, purple and brown leaves thickly cover the ground making a leaf collage. Although the leaves come from different trees, they all have one thing in common: they’re all leaves. This can be likened to both the students at my high school and the world’s people as well. No leaf, or person, is exactly the same. Colors, patterns, place of origin and future are all different. During the school year, I am surrounded by over two thousand students of varying backgrounds. One difference between myself and any other schoolmate could be our primary language. Every day at school, I am surrounded by those speaking Russian, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese... The list goes on. Although different backgrounds, languages and cultures could create separation between students, there is one language by which everybody can communicate and connect: English. Not all people that go to my high school speak English to the point of fluency, but they all do speak fluently enough to gain an education in an English speaking school. In other words, they’re bilingual. Bilingualism is like grafting a plumb tree branch onto a peach tree. The plum branch will grow on the peach tree, but neither the branch nor the tree will ever be the same. The peach tree is no longer purely a peach tree, and the plumb branch is not just a plumb branch either. They have been infused

Access to education is a basic human right, not a privilege. Human rights cannot be given or taken away on the basis of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. This means that “the right to education is legally guaranteed for all without any discrimination, state have the obligation to protect, respect, and fulfil the right to education, [and that] there are ways to hold states accountable for violations of deprivations of the right to education” (Right to Education). In 1948, Article 26 of The Universal Declaration on Human Rights declared that “everyone has the right to education.” However, many children are denied educational opportunities on the basis of their gender or their race. In the United States, race and gender inequality still plays a big role in students’ education. Race and ethnicity have been shown to have a large effect on the way that students learn and are treated in all levels of education. As with race, gender also plays a large role in one’s education. Reports have shown that “academic and disciplinary racial disparities continue to exist in K-1 education in the United States, and girls and young women in all parts of the globe are prevented from starting school at all, or not allowed to complete their education” (T., Kirah).