BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
Katy ISD is a 60.6% minority school district. As such, one can expect the plethora of Title I, Bilingual and ESL classes for students.
In my opinion, having grown up and taught in a Texas school district with similar minority numbers, native Spanish speaking students would be much better off if they were to be mainstreamed into the regular school population rather than being shunted off into bilingual classes. They will learn to speak English much faster, which is what their parents should want for them so that they can become a part of the American economic system and become acculturated.
All minority students living in America and attending school from the first grade have had and will have the same opportunity to become academically educated as all other students as long as they take advantage of the opportunity. Mary McGarr
1. An Argument Against Increased School Funding for Bilingual Education
2. Are Your Children Getting Ready to Be Guinea Pigs Again?
3. If You Wanted to Destroy America In Eight Easy Steps
4. Another Point of View Regarding Multilingualism by Ramnath Subramanian
5. Katy ISD Hype on Dual Immersion
6. Katy ISD Board Members Reject Expansion of Dual Immersion Program
7. English is the Road to Success by Jaime E Guerra
8. Bilingual Education Full of Flaws by Joan Beck
9. Watch Movie Stand and Deliver to See How Well Hispanic Students Can Do in Math
11. Speaking Spanish in Class by Theresa M Sagan
12. Right Wing Right About Bilingual Education
13. Ethnicity Over the Years in the Katy ISD
14. El Pasoans Might've Been Canaries in Immigration Coal Mine
15. What Happens To Our Country If We Don't All Speak English?