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Title: English Lessons: The Hard-Fought Battle Against Bilingual Education has Paid Dividends for Assimilation (Culture)
Author : The American Conservative
Release Date : January 23, 2009
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 60 KB

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I WAS VISITING a typical southern California public high school, one in which the student body is close to three-fourths Latino, when it dawned on me that virtually all the kids' hallway conversations with friends were conducted in English. Indeed, most of the students spoke without an accent. Well, to be pedantic, they had teen accents--it's practically impossible for a high-school girl to roll her eyes and exclaim "That is so gay" without sounding a little like Moon Unit Zappa in "Valley Girl"--but only a minority of the Hispanic students had Spanish accents. Nor, I recalled, had I heard teachers lecturing in anything but English. I found out later that a couple of percent of the classes are conducted in Spanish for the children of parents who request it, but few do.