My mother, although born in the U.S., didn't speak English until she went to school. That is the way it was. And we were a stronger country because of that.
Now, these kids are mollycoddled throughout. And they don't learn English fluency. They don't even know how to speak their dominant language correctly, let alone read or write it.
The primary emphasis on these program is money. The schools get more money per student for bi-lingual ed. than they get for regular ed.
My mom didn’t speak English when she started kindergarten, either. The difference now is that the classroom was not full of other kids who spoke her language. Many studies demonstrate that English learning goes down when the concentration of speakers of one other language goes up.
Schools used to deal with that by basically outlawing speaking Spanish at school. But that hurt the kids’ feelings, so now that’s out the door.