Here is my beef with this whole debate: Spanish speaking parents and their children, of course, want to learn English. That is not an issue that any of us should worry about. Why are we so ignorant in this country as to believe that our children, of any background and linguistic ability, cannot learn more than one language at a time? Children are infinitely capable of learning more than one language. Teaching children two languages from the start of school is the most natural way to have our children be bilingual and biliterate for the beginning. The question is: why don't more native English speaking parents insist that their children learn 2 languages as well.
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