Freedom_Of_Choice_And_Bilingual_Education

Freedom Of Choice And Bilingual Education Freedom of Choice and Bilingual Education Bilingual education is a hot topic in California. With the swelling tide of Spanish speaking immigrants comes the question of whether to adopt bilingual education or to stick with English-only education. Numerous arguments are present on each side, but the real question - the true bottom line - seems to be culture and the cost of its preservation to society: Spanish-speaking immigrants don’t want to lose their culture in the process of assimilation, and Americans feel they shouldn’t be forced to cater their society to immigrants. Where should the responsibility of culture preservation rest' Should Americans be forced to cater their society to Spanish-speaking immigrants' I believe it is not the responsibility of Americans or the American government to provide bilingual education for immigrants; immigrants make the choice to immigrate. Before my views on bilingual education can be discussed in depth, some of the common opposing points of view regarding bilingual education deserve an explanation. Richard Rodriguez, somewhat ironically, is an advocate of English-only education. For his views, he has received much criticism from the Spanish-speaking American community. Rodriguez grew up as a bilingual American and, from his experience, feels that bilingual education prolongs the process immigrants, education, language, rodriguez, culture, bilingual, american, choice, states, public, society, english, united, assimilation, americans, villanueva, should, rivera, native, learning, freedom, spanish-speaking, social, process, identity, hispanic, forced, advantages, 763, value, through, spanish, rodriguez’s, responsibility, realize