Speaking Spanish no longer against the rules ”” in most states

“It was the first time I had been swatted for speaking Spanish; it would not be the last. You might think a paddling would have muted me, at least in one language, but it was hard to stop a behavior which, like breathing or blinking, seemed involuntary. I could no more stop speaking in Spanish than I could stop thinking in Spanish.

Those days seem so long ago, and they are. But they are not as distant as they seem. Some educators have not learned the painful lesson of those times ”” that kids can embrace a new culture without forsaking their old one….”

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