What is wrong with the bilingual education program?

I would like to know why Europe and every other continent in the world teaches their children in more than one language and the United States is the only one that teaches only English?

Lets get our kids to the 21st century and make them more marketable in todays world by educating them in several languages!

This is the idea behind the dual language program.

Yea perhaps there should be other languages taught other than Spanish, but the parents need to demand it!

Instead of stealing the public funds like we have heard so much about we should try to increase the languages taught and improve the public school system.

[Ed Note: OK, let's get this straight: "bilingual education" where you mix kids who speak one language with kids who speak another language (and teach half-days in one language, and half in the other) is a good thing. But that's not what we're doing in DISD. We're focusing solely on Spanish (to the exclusion of all other languages), and we're trying to keep English out of the classrooms as long as possible.

Ironically, I don't think anyone in DISD administration wishes any of these kids harm. They're just wrong and, unfortunately, it's going to take decades to realize the harm and decades more to correct it.]