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September 25, 2007
Confirmed: Bilingual Education Keeps Kids Behind
A new study has stumbled upon the obvious: Bilingual education keeps Hispanics behind. From the Rocky Mountain News:
A study looking at whether poor children in Denver do better in wealthier schools turned up an unexpected — and far more controversial — finding that is raising questions about the use of Spanish in classrooms. The analysis by the Piton Foundation and the University of Colorado, to be released today, shows that students learning English make dramatically greater gains in wealthier schools than in poorer ones.
A key difference between the schools is that students in poorer schools typically learn English with help in their native language, generally Spanish.
In wealthier schools, students learning English are typically immersed in English.
"It raises more questions than it answers," Brad Jupp, senior academic adviser to Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet, said of the study.
The main question it raises is: What possible purpose could bilingual education serve, other than to keep Hispanics poor and unassimilated so that they will be more likely to depend on government handouts and vote for Democrats?
On a tip from El Presidente.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 25, 2007 11:17 AM
Comments
Moonbats think people are stupid.
Discouraging immigrants from learing the language is extemely counter-productive. The immigrants who know English always have more opportunities, and we don't need any more studies to prove it.
Posted by: forest at September 25, 2007 12:00 PM
The primary purpose it serves is to employ teachers of English as a Second Language. And administrators of ESOL programs.
Teachers and school administrators are key members of the Democratic voting block so they get what they want (jobs), and the Democrats get what they want (elected). Republicans get what they want (sometimes elected) by not challenging all this lest the Mainstream Media depict them as cruel, heartless xenophobes.
Unfortunately, no one really cares much what the kids get out of it. Or what American society and culture get out of it.
Posted by: Frank at September 25, 2007 12:10 PM
Somebody seems to have forgotten that schools are SUPPOSED TO prepare children for life in the real world, not for a school enviorment.
Posted by: KHarn at September 25, 2007 3:35 PM
