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The most contentious issue these days is how the language of the Power Elite dominates the world of education to such an extent that those in control of education do not even follow the best pedagogical practices available. While children all over the world learn two or three languages in school, children in the United States are subjected to a “deficit model” and labeled “English learners”. Their whole existence hinges upon their level of English.

As research clearly shows that it takes between five and seven years to master a second language, the result of this “deficit model” is to make a child’s formative years overshadowed by a great negative cloud of identity. How children manage to live pleasant happy childhoods in spite of what we do to them is only testimonial to the resilience that children have in the face of what adults do to them!