Richard Rodriguez Aria Memoir Of A Bilingual Education

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In the reading Aria: Memoire of A Bilingual Education, Rodriguez challenges the idea of bilingual education, and he takes us through his personal experience of a bilingual childhood where he talks about what he encountered in America as he attempts to adjust to the American culture, and why he believes that learning the public language in school is more important than learning the private language. In this essay I will be discussing why I agree with Rodriguez’s point of view.
Rodriguez was born in a Mexican immigrant family in America, his parents decided to move to California where everyone there spoke only in English, in the reading he said something really interesting: “An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were white” (Page 322). He believed it was an accident that he moved to the area he lived …show more content…
Rodriguez also mentioned this in his article, he said that “bilingualists insists that a student should be reminded of his difference from others in the mass society, his heritage” (Page 333). But the truth is a student can be reminded of his or her uniqueness at home, their parents can still teach them and remind them once they got home, why do they have to be reminded at school? I believe that if one’s parents decided to immigrate to America is because they want a better life for their kids, and by having a better life they should encourage their kids to speak more English rather than their private language, because it was the parents who chose to move to America so they should except the fact that for their children to have a better life that would mean to learn the public language, but they also have to know that it doesn’t mean they have to give up their private
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