Latino Bilingual Education
Do Spanish-speaking immigrants have rights to bilingual education? With the increase of the Latino population in New York City during the 1960s caused the school system to be faced with a new issue of language rights. My topic of bilingual education is important because with the increasing presence of Latinos it brings an increasing number of Limited English Proficient Students to the country. Being a first or second generation Latino having a bilingual education makes a difference in one life by causing them to preserve part of their culture. My paper will focus on what exactly is bilingual education, it’s origins, the ways in which it is taught, the successes and failures and what the future holds.
According to encyclopedia.com Bilingual …show more content…
If a student is a second generation Latino and him or her parents speaks only Spanish and the student on the other hand only learns English at school it can cause a culture block between parent and child. The child will know some Spanish but if he or she is strictly taught English then that would become the student native language. But if he or she has a bilingual education the process for learning English will take longer but at least that child can communicate with their parents and can even later on teach them a few English …show more content…
The ASPIRA organization collaborated with African Americans to help “desegregate the schools. In 1969 the School Decentralization Law and 1974 ASPIRA bilingual consent decree were policies that targeted to create opportunities for local representation in school governance and addressing the specific linguistic and cultural needs of Puerto Ricans” (Anthony De Jesus and Madeleine Lopez 2009). Even though cases like Brown v. Board of education and Plessey v. Ferguson which sought to create separate but equal education opportunities for every student no matter ethnicity it wasn’t strictly implemented until the “Civil Rights Act was of 1964, which banned discrimination in schools and institutions that receives federal funds.” Also the ‘equal protection clause of the Civil Rights Act was then used in a Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols to help bring rights for discrimination against English language
According to encyclopedia.com Bilingual …show more content…
If a student is a second generation Latino and him or her parents speaks only Spanish and the student on the other hand only learns English at school it can cause a culture block between parent and child. The child will know some Spanish but if he or she is strictly taught English then that would become the student native language. But if he or she has a bilingual education the process for learning English will take longer but at least that child can communicate with their parents and can even later on teach them a few English …show more content…
The ASPIRA organization collaborated with African Americans to help “desegregate the schools. In 1969 the School Decentralization Law and 1974 ASPIRA bilingual consent decree were policies that targeted to create opportunities for local representation in school governance and addressing the specific linguistic and cultural needs of Puerto Ricans” (Anthony De Jesus and Madeleine Lopez 2009). Even though cases like Brown v. Board of education and Plessey v. Ferguson which sought to create separate but equal education opportunities for every student no matter ethnicity it wasn’t strictly implemented until the “Civil Rights Act was of 1964, which banned discrimination in schools and institutions that receives federal funds.” Also the ‘equal protection clause of the Civil Rights Act was then used in a Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols to help bring rights for discrimination against English language