The Battle for Bilingual Education | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Most histories about the integration of Boston’s schools in the 1970s focus on the tension between the city’s Black and white residents-but there’s another narrative that goes beyond black and white. This is the little-known story of how Latino and Asian activists took on the education system, and won.
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Thank you for this additional perspective. It's so easy to get trapped in the one-dimensional thinking of black and white.
As an American citizen that was educated in the 1970’s I remember a public announcement over the PA system that announced all non-English students report to a different room for a class in English everyday for one hour. And I, being a South Floridian most of the new students in our school system were of Cuban decent from “Operation Pedro Pan”. Now, I have no argument for that matter. But my gripe is, why didn’t they teach us, the English students, the Spanish language at the same time. So the result is that now most Cubans became bilingual at an early age. Sure we could take Spanish in Jr High and High School, which I did. But having a head start in elementary school to learn a second language would have been nice for our education system to have provided the same opportunity as the new immigrants were offered.
Bilingual education isn't a substitute for non-Anglophone children learning English; it's a recognition that few of them can learn English overnight and their education shouldn't be put on hold until they do. (Does it matter if Jose learns algebra in Spanish, so long as he learns it?)
Me no speak Engles. Como ?
It should NOT be incumbent upon the American school system to provide education in every possible language of every immigrant. Are the immigrants going to PAY for that? If I want to go to a different country to live, will THAT country pay for me to learn the local language so that I can live and get along in a fucking country that I CHOSE to go to? Ridiculous. If you come here, make your way here. YOU figure it out. YOU do the work. YOU pay for it.
@@TheVeek192
Dude! Immigrants do pay for that. It’s called taxes.
not the illegal ones, not the ones who get paid illegally. @@whathell6t
I agree 100%. I'm pretty politcally conservative but I see the logic here. A friend of mine got a sub-par education because he didn't speak english when he arrived here as a kid--but he's brilliant. I wonder what he could have done had he been able to take the grade-level classes instead of being shuttered away in special-ed.
Maybe I’m stuck in the past with British history but America could really benefit from having a national language. There’s lots of foreigners that came here knowing that the US has no national language and they continue to speak their home language and then struggle to integrate into society and understand laws and directions from their employers.
I used to think that it promoted individualism but who cares about that haha
I'm a third culture kid who speaks 5 languages. I've greatly benefited from all cultures and languages. I have successfully integrated into many countries and cultures and many opportunities have been afforded to me due to my language skills, tolerance and capability to blend in with ease. I predominantly speak English, Spanish and French with my family.
I would encourage you to travel and open yourself up to far more than Florida as an experience. There's much to be learned besides the American way 😊
@@kungfumind. ouch sounds expensive
@@microsoft790 Un peu
Liberals don't like that. If it is good for America liberals are disgusted.
@microsoft790 Your suggestion of a National Language is purely Utopian. Language is a natural, organic process that is very sensitive to the immediate environment. I once saw an interview with linguist Noam Chomsky where he said that everyday language, or colloquial language can sometimes change substantially by just traveling a few hundred miles. A National Language would just create more unenforceable laws like Drug Laws, laws agagainst prostitution, laws against gambling.
American schools should teach English ONLY. Tax payers spend 68 million dollars a year printing materials in foreign languages. Assimilate or don't come to America. We were proud to come here. We were proud to assimilate. If your culture is so great why flee it?
@philipstroll7385
What about Native Americans/Alaska Natives/Hawaiian Polynesians? Are you asking them to only learn English and ignore their indigenous languages?
@@whathell6t Yes! For one reason. The world's business is performed in English. The UN, civil rights law, global economics, etc is preformed in English. To not teach your child English is a disservice to them. If they cannot read the constitution they live by and protected by you damn them to wilful enslavement. When the global community switches to Swahili, crow, apache, or Polynesian I'll suggest we teach our children that. When the constitution which grants the freedoms they enjoy is written in Croatian then they can learn that. Teaching one's children to be tribal is a great disservice to the child. You aren't helping them. That isn't too say they can't play Indian in the backyard or pretend to exist off only set potatoes and chickens.
Funny, I don't hear this argument when it comes to medicine, food, electricity, running water, automobiles, clothing, etc. All these people you mentioned sure take advantage of all those advancements. But when it comes to acting like a mature participant in society then there is a problem. Gtfoh.
Oh, and which indigenous people would be the one we default to exactly? All were waring tribes whose land traded ownership countless times. So then, whom becomes the default to what?
I'm in no way suggesting we forget our ancestry. I'm merely saying, it is irrelevant. Unless you plan on creating fire by rubbing sticks together and eating deer the rest of your life, it truly is irrelevant. The past no longer exists. We lost. Get over it.
@@phillipstroll7385
But we’re not talking about the world’s businesses/global economics, UN, civil rights, etc.
We’re talking about your assertion that American schools should teach only English in the USA, not the world.
You went off tangent and still isn’t coherent.
@@whathell6t oh but we are. See, that's where the problem is. You don't realize we do not exist within a small bubble. The world is global. Those of us whom do well in school, study, take advantage of that free education, don't break the law get to travel the world. They get to own property, create generational wealth, compete on a global stage. All while the others live their entire existence in their section 8 house while calling the tax payers whom pay your rent and buy your food racist. The USA had English only laws in schools as early as the 1780s. It went on to become the most powerful nation in earth. When French was the global language schools taught French. When Latin was the global language schools taught Latin, Greek and so on. Today it's English. In time it maybe something else. However, until then, it's English. That's not to say I've shouldn't learn an elective language. Latin is still a great choice. Chinese, Japanese, great choices. Russian a great choice. Even Arabic. These are all global powers. Sorry but some individual tribe isn't a global power.
@@whathell6t also, if you can't see past your nose why would you want those languages taught on a national scale?