Language

Within the school system the issue of bilingual education has become a touchy issue for many. This has resulted in the linguistic background of many students being marginalized as being unimportant and problematic to their very educational futures. The problem with this is that by simply forcing these students to learn English and depriving them of their own languages, they not only may not fully understand English due to the issues relating to the meanings in their own linguistic background, but it also forces them to deal with injustice from which their trust in the system itself may never return (377). I feel that bilingual education is a necessary aspect of a decision to become urban educators as we need to offer opportunity to the fullest, and this can only be done by allowing students to utilize their own linguistic background in order to grow i their knowledge of English, as well as the other subjects, to move towards their fullest potential.