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From: brunner@cup.hp.com (Eric Brunner Contra)
Subject: Re: Bilingual Education
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s8700001@singnet.com.sg (Daniel Chiang) writes:
: Bilingual education has been a contravertial topic of discussion. It has been said that educating a child in two languages means neglecting his English and causing it to be affected. However, bilingual education has been very popular. Would anyone care to comment on the value of such an education.

Try to keep your line length down to around 80 characters, please. As to
bilingual ed, my daughter had no problems being raised bi, or with language
issues attending a French curriculum bilingual primary school in the US.
The only controversy I see around bilingualism is in public schools, where
there is a pressure group for monolingualism. There is no controversy at
private schools, where parents are paying _for_ language as a primary value
of primary and secondary education.

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		-- Eric Brunner
