CA. these people tell concerned parents that transitional bilingual education is the best way for their children to learn English. They dont tell them that the children will learn English late in their school career and probably never adequately learn English. Bilingual education instead of easing the transition for new immigrants to America actually imprisons its pupils below a glass ceiling of at best functional literacy and substandard English. An article in the Washington Post on this topic earned the headline "No English. No Future." What a travesty. New immigrants who want to share the American dream and create a better future for their children are being defrauded by the American Government. Their new country is endorsing programs which will keep their own children in poverty. No more poignant statement of this problem can be found than in the words of Ernesto Ortiz. a foreman on a south Texas ranch who said: My children learn Spanish in school so they can grow up to be busboys and waiters.
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