The Disuniting of America – Reflections of a Multicultural Society
“The bilingual Education Act of 1968 supplies guidelines and funding; the 1974 Supreme Court decision in Lau vs. Nichols (a Chinese speaking case) requires school districts to provide special programs for children who do not know English.
Alas, bilingualism has not worked out as planned: rather the contrary. The bilingual campaign has created both an educational lobby with a vested interest in perpetuating a bilingual empire and a political lobby with a vested interest in retaining a Hispanic constituency. As a result, bilingual education in its current version does more to maintain Spanish than to teach English. ….. Institutional bilingualism shuts doors. It nourishes self-ghettoization, and ghettoization nourishes racial antagonism.” – Schlesinger Jr.
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