on non-English speaking students. It is not the job of the one or two English speaking kids to teach the non-English speaking students. The kids do not know how to go about communicating with them and they don't know the native tongue of the non-English speaking students. They also don't have the credentials. Most parents would not want their children taught by uncertified people, and that's what would happen in this situation. Although, if the converse happens, it is a good thing. Putting a few non-English speaking students in an all English class makes them learn English faster in order to communicate with their peers. If these students are given a good reason to learn English and are put in a good situation, they will learn it. If the English speaking students are placed in a non-English speaking class because of overcrowding, it's going to hurt them and the non-English speaking students, too. The English speaking students won't be able to concentrate on just English and the rest of their normal classes because of the odd situation. Non-English speaking students won't have all of the attention they need to learn English and both will learn at a slower pace and be behind.The last reason that bilingual education programs aren't good is that they are wasting the US's citizen's tax dollars. If a program in our community that doesn't work, then why should money be wasted to pay for it? Looking at all of the reasons why this current bilingual system doesn't work, why would one want to continue to pay for it? $12-$15 billion is to go to bilingual education programs right out of taxes. That is about 35% of tax money that goes down the drain. Peter Duignan said that "bilingual education was judged a failure by many experts and an expensive one at that" (Duignan) If these programs were updated and made to fit the students now, they wouldn't be money wasters.The current bilingual education program in ineffective in teaching non...
