Lemon Grove Case Study

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After all of the readings, lectures, and video, one legislation or court case that I feel that made and impacted on English learners would be Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of Lemon Grove School. After watching the movie, I did not like how the school board take care of the situation. They seem not to think about their decision thoroughly. The school board seems to cared more about their image than the Mexican students’ education. For me, I think that if people who are going to be on the school board should care about the students’ education no matter their ethnicity. Every student deserved to have the same resources and education as anybody else despite their ethnicity. Every student deserved to have the same resources and education …show more content…

Do not separate them from other students just because you do not have sufficient knowledge of teaching bilingual. We need to understand that these students do not have the resources to help them with English and the school is the place for these students to get their education and learn the English language. As for the School Board, they should have gone and visit the school to see if they see the same problems as the Lemon Grove PTA had state it in their letter. It seems that they could careless of their students’ education. As a School Board, they need to see what is the problem and find ways to fix it so there could be balance between the bilingual students and the students who are not bilingual. I am glad that the case of Alvarez vs. the School Board of Lemon Grove went well and won the case. The Mexican students need to be with the white students so they could learn English from their White classmates. Learning English is better when communicating with others. This has open ways for bilingual education. No matter how much others do not like it, there has to be an understanding that many ethnicity wants education and the United States has free education from elementary to high school. We will have to meet the needs of our students and it will allow our students to learn to appreciate every cultures. Bilingual education is much needed in city that has mass of bilingual

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