LiterateAbraham

                            The non-natural American children all have a different culture in them. They were raised differently than American children. They have their own culture with many ways of being baked into the culture. Their environments are much different than what the United States had to offer. We start to move into a territory of clashing cultures. The bilingual students are inherently different. The purpose of trying to americanize them is to convert them. The board of education wanted every American student to be truly American. Strip yourself of your past culture and adopt ours. The bilingual children couldn't fully experience the American lifestyle without knowing of it. This idea of losing your culture to adopt a new one is not good.  An intelligent person would never negate new knowledge, to purposefully lose knowledge would be an unintelligent thing to do. It puzzles me how the scho...

Early experiences      My mother used to always read to me when I was a young boy. She wouldn't d the traditional route of reading short children books but instead we would read full length books. I'm the youngest of 3 which significant age gaps. We would read Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone. Thats a very long book so we would take a long time to read it. Eventually through this process I wouldn't be listening to her instead i'd be reading the book aloud to her. I think this was great for me because when I was big enough to go to school and when we started reading aloud in class I would never struggle. I noticed that even later on in life during high school I would be shocked at the amount of students that struggled to read correctly and consistently aloud in class.      I never felt illiterate because I was always being taught how to communicate well. My parents are Spanish speakers that can read and write it well. I always had to balance both langua...