Bilingual Education

Bilingual education is geared toward putting off learning the language for as long as possible; that's why it is such a failure.

I have watched the apologists for bilingual education for three decades. Almost exclusively they are youngish women with accents who have a story to tell. They talk of how they entered kindergarten speaking only Spanish and felt confused and alone, and then they cry while expressing their great wish to protect any other Hispanic children entering school from having to go through that same torture, the torture of not knowing what the teacher is saying and of not having any friends till they learn to speak English.

Since it is known that kindergarten-age children who are immersed in a language will start speaking that language in just a week or two, and will be chattering away in that language in just six to ten weeks, one wonders about all the panic over the possibility of their not knowing the language for such a dire length of time. I'm guessing that if these women didn't have the kindergarten immersion treatment to cry over, they'd be out ruining a different group of lives campaigning for green solutions to a non-existent problem called Anthropogenic Global Warming.