A professor from the University of California, Los Angeles recently spoke out against bilingual education, which she claims can have negative effects on what she terms “Latinx” students.
Professor Laura Chávez-Moreno made her comments during a Thursday appearance on the Havard EdCast.
She claimed that bilingual education can “racialize Latinx students” through “the idea of gathering students together, thinking that they share a language that they need to maintain.” This, according to Chávez-Moreno, makes bilingual education a “racial project.”
She stated that bilingual education is an “anti-racist” practice, apparently claiming that expecting immigrants to assimilate is “racist,” but she added that bilingual education can still be harmful through “constructing ideas about the Latinx group.”
She continued, saying that American schools should teach “about our racialized society in a progressive way,” something that she does not believe the U.S. has “thought about deeply.” […]
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