- I guess my feelings toward this line is sort of bitter sweet. I mean, I was once and still am, a student who wasn’t taught in their family’s native language, and yet I still made out alright in school. By not being taught in my native language, it gave me a chance and opportunity to not only expand my vocabulary, but to also fight the challenge and balance two completely languages out. At Lima Elementary school, I heard that they’re teaching changes weekly.. One week in English, the next in Spanish. Personal, while they might think that they are trying to help the children with their bilingual skills, in reality they’re not. It’s a challenge, but it’s also a huge distraction. There really isn’t a huge deal that the students are missing out on by this. They aren’t being taught in their family’s language, but they are still going home to it though.
2. “The belief, the calming assurance that I belonged in public, had at last taken hold.”
- To be honest, I feel like there’s something wrong about this sentence. Children, the world’s most innocent development, shouldn’t have to feel the insecurity of not being able to belong in public. It shouldn’t have been after all this time that the speaker feels like they finally belong..
3. “Today I hear bilingual educators say that children lose a degree of ‘individuality‘ by becoming assimilated into public society.”
-I AGREE COMPLETELY! I have seen people, mainly teenagers, try and act like a culture that they are not, trying to speak a language they normally don’t. I’ve noticed that most of this is pertaining to the Hispanic culture and languages. At first, I could never understand why, but now that Rodriguez mentioned it, it’s probably because not only is it our country’s most common foreign language, but also because that’s what they are learning in school.
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