Abolish Bilingual Education by Lynn Woolley

Bilingual education has become a program by the adults, of the adults and for the adults. There is no other way to explain the continued growth of an education fad so flawed that even the man who wrote the bill imposing it in 1974 would like to see its demise.

But teachers and school administrators seem to be totally sold on the program, never questioning whether it really works.

In Waco, Texas, hearts at the local school district are all a-flutter because the district needs up to 60 new bilingual instructors. In Waco, where about half of the children in school are Hispanic, administrators like “Bilingual Director” Betty Johnston find themselves trapped in a maze of government rules. On the one hand, those who teach English as a Second language (ESL) don’t have to be fluent in English and Spanish, but the bilingual teachers do.

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