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Speech by Ernest Rodriguez Page 8
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Page 9 A lot of people in Muscatine, Iowa would have to go back to Texas. But whether we were born here or in Mexico we shouldn't be targets for discriminatory laws. A related issue is the funding of bilingual education progress. Bilingual instruction is an educational tool to insure that Spanish-speaking children do not fall behind their peers 2 and 3 grades before they start learning anything. Bilingual instruction teaches the child in his or her own language and at the same time teaches him or her to understand and speak English. This provides the Spanish-speaking child a smooth transition into an English-speaking environment.
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Page 9 A lot of people in Muscatine, Iowa would have to go back to Texas. But whether we were born here or in Mexico we shouldn't be targets for discriminatory laws. A related issue is the funding of bilingual education progress. Bilingual instruction is an educational tool to insure that Spanish-speaking children do not fall behind their peers 2 and 3 grades before they start learning anything. Bilingual instruction teaches the child in his or her own language and at the same time teaches him or her to understand and speak English. This provides the Spanish-speaking child a smooth transition into an English-speaking environment.
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