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bilingual EdBILINGUAL EDUCATION IS BENEFICIAL TO STUDENTS ABILITIES TO ASSIMILATE IN THE MAINSTREAM finish position only--sink or swim? Yeah right Instead of English Only Advocates worrying about bilingual education cost in our school system, why not take advantage of the skills our ethnic minorities make to move our economy forward? They are obviously not thought clearly, because the benefit of bilinguals, crucially outweigh the bad. To deny our youth the opportunity for upwardly mobility and skill to become more marketable in a cosmopolitan capacity is inhumane. They count bilinguals threaten to sap our sense of national identity element and divide us along ethnic lines. They also fear that each government recognition of minority terminologys sends the wrong message to immigrants, encouraging them to believe they can live in the U.S.A. without learning English or conforming to The American way. That is an overt, racist, and paranoid view, dont you think? The most signifi cant issues that support bilingual education for students ability to assimilate in the mainstream nicety are, the development of students linguistic resources and preserve their cultural heritage, contributions to the American economy, and diversity. The development of a students language and preservation of their culture is essential for the upward mobility of todays youth. There always have been some immigrants who viewed themselves explicitly as the preserver and savior of their languages and heritages. Since the late 1800s, ethnic minorities in America have been systematically characterized as culturally inferior. Their language right has consistently been the subject of semipolitical review. Politicians do not have (PCC(SW) Taylor/16603/M... ...IVa. Preservation of culture/languageb. Ethnic minorities culturally inferiorc. Language subject to political review.d. move on bilingualisme. Students face difficulty in schoolf. Educational failureVa. American economyb. E nglish one languagec. Information Techmnology.d. 4 year study.e. WEB pages.VIa. We discussed the development of students linguistic resourcesb. As equal Opportunity Advisorsc. Assimilate ethnic minority personnel into the mainstream of societyd. No matter what the theoretical conclusionse. They should be afforded the opportunity to judge for themselvesBibliographyJames Crawford Homepage, RethinkingSchools bilingualist Education Summer 1999http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage/jwcrawford.James Crawford Homepage, MAY 1987http//ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage/jwcrawford