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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