Office of Education and the new Department have been not merely wasteful but positively damaging to millions of Hispanic children. During the last 2 years the tide has begun to turn on these issues. as thoughtful Americans have observed the stress and turmoil triggered by French separatists in Canada. More and more observers have come to see that linguistic unity is a benign and necessary complement to ethnic diversity. and that the children of immigrants are only harmed by programs which consciously delay their mastery of English. 79059 0 1984 - 43 - (Vol. 127 Pt. 2) To his great credit. Secretary Bell has already acted to withdraw former Secretary Hufstedlers August 1980 draft bilingual regulations. which were the most wrongheaded in a long series of wrongheaded Federal decisions on this subject. This decision marks a major turning point. but it should be seen as only the first step in a long road back to sanity.
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