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Letter: Same Debate, Different Day It
is destined to remain the most debated language learning topic in
the United States. Should there or shouldn’t there be bilingual
education. Your cover story “Bilingual
Balance” (ALR, January/February 2000) reinforced the fact
that essentially there is no right or wrong way. Both arguments
have their merits, it seems to come down a “simple matter of
preference” to those who are the policymakers. I will ask this
though, shouldn’t we not concentrate on those who are the recipients
of the “policy” decisions - our students - rather than
trying to win political battles? Finally
how about this for a novel idea, in our democratic society wouldn’t
it be nice if we were able to offer a choice to our students as
to whether they would like to learn in a bilingual environment or
English only. Oh, if we only lived in an ideal world. Rich
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