The holly and silly ones never see beyond their own feet.
How far can they go in this internet age ?
Nothing and nowhere.
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/the-costs-of-english-only-education/413494/
“Students need to see themselves in the school in order to excel academically,” she says. “If there’s a disconnect between students’ home identities … and what’s promoted by the school, students are more likely to disconnect, disinvest, and experience educational failure.” The situation is worsened, Hazlehurst stresses, when the first language isn’t taught, hindering a child’s ability to communicate. “[When] children lose their home language skills, we as educators have a serious problem … fractured communities are created when families can no longer [talk] on a deep level about issues that matter.”
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