Transcript
Irene Chavolla
Coordinator of Title I Migrant and LEP program, Idaho State Department
of Education
How do you respond to people who don't support bilingual education?
I point to them in the research and show them some of the research. Unfortunately,
when they make up their mind that bilingual education is not the way to
go, then we steer them into a different direction. We tell them that the
ultimate goal in education and any program in education is to teach the
children Spanish, or to teach the children English, and we might go through
the route of bilingual education but we might go through a different route.
What we really want is we want the students to learn English, to be successful
and to be productive citizens.
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