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Bilingual EdBILINGUAL EDUCATION IS BENEFICIAL TO STUDENTS ABILITIES TO ASSIMILATE IN THE MAINSTREAM CULTURE slope only--sink or swim? Yeah right Instead of English Only Advocates worrying about bilingual education cost in our school system, wherefore non take advantage of the skills our ethnic minorities possess to move our economy forward? They are obviously not thinking clearly, because the benefit of bilinguals, significantly surpass the bad. To deny our youth the opportunity for upward mobility and skill to become more marketable in a worldwide capacity is inhumane. They believe bilinguals threaten to tire out our sense of national identity and divide us along ethnic lines. They also fear that any government recognition of minority languages sends the wrong heart to immigrants, encouraging them to believe they can live in the U.S.A. without learning English or conforming to The American way. That is an overt, racist, and paranoid view, dont you think? The most significant is sues that support bilingual education for students ability to assimilate in the mainstream culture are, the discipline of students linguistic resources and preserve their cultural heritage, contributions to the American economy, and diversity. The development of a students language and preservation of their culture is essential for the upward mobility of todays youth. There always have been some immigrants who viewed themselves explicitly as the preserver and delivery boy of their languages and heritages. Since the late 1800s, ethnic minorities in America have been consistently characterized as culturally inferior. Their language right has consistently been the subject of political review. Politicians do not have (PCC(SW) Taylor/16603/M... ...IVa. Preservation of culture/languageb. Ethnic minorities culturally inferiorc. Language subject to political review.d. Encourage bilingualisme. Students face difficulty in schoolf. Educational failureVa. American economyb. English o ne languagec. Information Techmnology.d. 4 year study.e. WEB pages.VIa. We discussed the development of students linguistic resourcesb. As Equal Opportunity Advisorsc. Assimilate ethnic minority personnel into the mainstream of societyd. No matter what the theoretical conclusionse. They should be afforded the opportunity to referee for themselvesBibliographyJames Crawford Homepage, RethinkingSchools Bilingual Education Summer 1999http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage/jwcrawford.James Crawford Homepage, MAY 1987http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage/jwcrawford