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For decades, immigrant children have been taught in their native languages in schools across the country while slowly and simultaneously receiving English as a second language. But like anything, bilingual education is not without its flaws. In fact, it's plague ....

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.... into classes which are taught in English (Sjoerdsma 504K2721). This is, of course, how bilingual education should work in theory. This is not, however, the case. Critics of bilingual education say that "the objectives of the classes are confused, the quality of instruction is poor," and the "transition" time, when students transition into regular classes, is murky (Schrag 14). Critics believe that the goals of bilingual education have been forgotten and replaced with the need to "preserve native culture and traditions" (Rothstein 627). In fact, the major defense from advocates of bilingual education is that there is nothing wrong with ....