Roderick Reilly
2007-11-30 13:40:48
Bilingual education for younger children is completely unnecessary. I’m assuming, of course, that we’re talking about the purpose of bilingual education being to help students make a transition to all-English education. I don’t believe that is the agenda of “bilingualists.”
I’m not being presumptious. My siblings and I learned Italian through total immersion in Italian schools. I was the oldest at age 7, yet became fluent (by child standards) in a year-and-a-half, and even became a whiz at Italian grammar and writing. We became fully bilingual as a result.
