Monolingual Schools For All

Imagine this. You're a Mexican immigrant who just arrived in America. Before you attend school with American students, you must learn English. You go to a school for immigrants expecting to still hear some Spanish, but instead, your teacher speaks all English. You fail to grasp almost everything. However after a few weeks, you get a brief concept of this strange new language. Many people believe that schools should be monolingual, but others think that schools for immigrants should remain bilingual. Schools should be monolingual!
Monolingual schools are more effective than bilingual schools, because they help students learn a new language faster and save money.
First of all, monolingual schools can help a student learn a new language better than a bilingual school. By speaking in a strange new language, you can push a child out of their native language and help them learn a new language faster. While a student won't be able to understand anything you're saying, he will grasp the language sooner or later, and will learn better than a student who has a teacher who speaks his native language. I have had experience with this. In 3rd grade, my Spanish teacher was out, and she was replaced by a substitute teacher who spoke all Spanish. Though it was torture for the whole class, I actually managed to learn a lot of Spanish in the month she taught. Right now, I have a student who just came from Japan in some of my classes. All his teachers speak to him in English in hopes of him being able to learn and repeat what they say. The attempt was successful. Speaking in only a new language in school can really benefit an immigrant student.
Monolingual schools also save money. If someone wants bilingual teachers, he must pay an abundance of excess money. Eliminating bilingual teachers allows schools to save money. Many school districts, such as the Bernards school district, greatly need money for something more important. Because of the beginning of Great Depression II, many districts have very tight budgets. A district should not just waste their money on bilingual teachers. They should devote their money to something more useful, like better technology for teachers and students, more books for the media center and classrooms, or a longer school year. Removing bilingual teachers and support for an immigrant student is a perfect way to save money.
Although a bilingual school can be great as it allows a student to hear their native language and relieves stress in learning, a monolingual school is better. It helps them learn a new language better and saves money. A monolingual school is what everyone needs. Write a letter to your Board of Education proclaiming for monolingual schools!

Which is More Important: Participating in Sports or Winning (Final)

Goal! The Blue Team wins! "Darn!" Red Team grumbles. Many people have been in the situation of the Red Team before. In sports, people question whether participating in sports or winning a game is more important. Some people think that sports are great if you try and have fun. Others hate to lose and and their only ambition is to win. Losing teams have always complained about being beaten, while their coach tries to persuade them that it doesn't matter who wins or loses, unless everyone has fun. Participating in sports is obviously much more important. Players can learn from their mistakes. Coaches can know if a player is actually trying. And winning too much can go to your head.
First, players can learn from mistakes they make if they lose. Studies show that people learn much more from mistakes than just getting what they do right the first time. This applies to sports too. If you learn from your mistakes, you'll get better and better. Imagine this: a goalie in soccer isn't that good. He always lets the ball in. After losing ten straight games in a row, he finally understands the proper way to prevent the ball from coming in. He leads his team to victory. While winning teams do learn how to overcome an opponent, a losing team is learning as much as the winning team is. Losing teams could apply their mistakes and the victorious team's strategy to possibly win next time.
Second, the coach can make sure that all the players are trying. For teams that always win, there might be a few slack-offs who don't do anything at all and some players who do all the work. In a team where having fun and participating is important, everyone is contributing to the game and exercising. Participating also promotes teamwork with other players, to throw a ball to each other or to support someone when he is blocked by the goalie. Participating is also important, because it gives you a chance to exercise. Exercising is very important as it makes a person healthy and prevents them from many diseases, and lets someone be strong and fit. Take this situation: there's a basketball team that always wins. However, the only reason is because there is one exceptionally good player. The other players always relax and do nothing. However, a different team loses most of the time. But, the team is made up of players who love to play basketball and have fun. Everyone helps score points. The first team is obviously better. In real life, it's true that most teams have some players who never do anything. If participating was held important instead of winning, all the players would contribute to the game.
Finally, winning can go to one's head. Some people believe that they'll always win and there's no need to even practice and try. Winning too much could even make a whole team arrogant. Teams who lose resolve to try better next time and practice more and get better. Winning too much could make a whole team go downhill. Look at this story: a baseball team, let's say team A, is always winning. All the players get cocky and don't even try anymore. Another team, team B, loses several times. Nevertheless, B makes into the finals. They find out that they're versing A. B lost to A before and are determined to try their best. On the big day, A loses the game: 0 to 7. Though this only happens sometimes, it can affect anyone. So, sometimes even losing can help.
Winning always feels nice. It gives a team satisfaction and proves to them that they're better than the other team. Everyone loves to win. However, participating is much more important than winning. Players learn from mistakes, participate more, and are prevented from getting too egoistical. Think about it. Participating in a game is much more important than winning. Next time anyone attends a sports game, they shouldn't think about winning, but helping the team!