Charles Taylor: “Mr. Chairman, I rise today to support of the Roth amendment. Title VII of H.R.6 authorizes over $1 billion to be spent…”

“Mr. Chairman, I rise today to support of the Roth amendment. Title VII of H.R.6 authorizes over $1 billion to be spent on programs to teach non-English speaking and non-English proficient students in their native languages. The proponents of this program assert that by teaching these students science, math, and history in other languages, they will learn English faster. This theory makes absolutely no sense at all. Yet, this is what Congress has insisted that most schools do for 27 years now. And if we ask the administration how well these programs are working, they tell us to give them a few more years and a lot more money and they will get back to us. This experiment simply does not work. Non-English proficient children deserve the opportunity to grow up, live, and work in this great Nation unhindered by language barriers, and proper education in English is the only way to insure that opportunity exists. Moreover, the cost of this program in training and resources cannot be justified by the results we have seen over the years.”