“Challenging Venerable Assumptions: Literacy Instruction for Liguistically Different Students,” Maria de la Luz Reyes

Just a thought.

An article (that I cannot find anywhere!) in the Onion basically read like this:

Legislation passed in Colorado today, making English the official language for all state governmental policies and procedures. The ban on the use of Spanish has inadvertently required the state of Colorado to change its name.

Ok, so the Onion did a better job of writing that than I just did, but I think I got the point across. This spoof on government’s deciding the language of dominance is similar to the first assumption, made in de la Luz Reyes’ case, about education. It undermines not only the historic roots we have in bilingualism, but also limits general potential for the success..