Being a Mexican-American growing up in a family of ten siblings with an English speaking father and a Spanish speaking mother was the best thing that ever happened to me. I loved living in the riches of two cultures, two languages, and absolutely relished celebrating Mexican and American customs and traditions all under one roof. ... I quickly learned, Spanish was not tolerated in my classroom, or school for that matter, and it was not long before I assimilated to the ways of our school system and learned that it was best to forget and dishonor my Mexican culture. ... I made it through my mi...

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We can all sit around and complain all we want that they should be the ones learning our language, but the population is only going to increase, and it is going to become more difficult. ... That is why I feel that it should be crucial for the American K-12 education to start teaching children as much English as well Spanish from first entering grade school to graduating high school. I will be focusing on three main aspects on the importance of knowing a second language; where our country currently stands compared to other countries, why being bilingually disadvantaged is occurring, and the b...

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The world has changed and travel is more common among other countries some of it is legal but there are rules to crossing borders and these rules are not always obeyed. finding out that there are more Spanish immigrants here illegally than any other kind would make people think that they need to cater to their language, this is a mistake as we should not have to be nice to people that jumped a fence to get here and want freedom and have the audacity to want us to learn their language to make it easy for them. 92% of the world's countries have at least one official language accordin...

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• Grade Level: High School

The world has changed and travel is more common among other countries some of it is legal but there are rules to crossing borders and these rules are not always obeyed. finding out that there are more Spanish immigrants here illegally than any other kind would make people think that they need to cater to their language, this is a mistake as we should not have to be nice to people that jumped a fence to get here and want freedom and have the audacity to want us to learn their language to make it easy for them. 92% of the world's countries have at least one official language accordin...

• Word Count: 990
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School