Yiddish. and many other for- parents at the Ninth Street School in Los Aneign languages. Although none of these for- geles recently pulled their children out of eign languages is the official language of school to protest the education bureaucracys Israel. their use is welcomed In a free society. refusal to teach their children In English. But Israels Insistence on Hebrew as the na- Bilingual education programs often require tional language Insures that the children of in- teaching children in their native language and migrants quickly become Hebrew speakers discourage the learning of English. These profirst. and speakers of their parents language grams are a shameful example of the damage second. Although a parent might wish for her to our society caused by official children to speak English as well as an Amer- mutilingualism.
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