Bilingual education

Bilingual education is to teach children in school a language other than their native language.

In the US, proponents of the practice argue that it should keep them from falling behind their peers in the interim between immigrating and mastering English. Opponents of the practice argue that it delays their mastery of English, thereby retarding their learning of other subjects as well. In California there has been considerable politicking for and against bilingual education in the State. Much of the argument against, hinges on the idea that California is in the United States and that everyone in the US needs to learn to speak English.

In Japan, the need of bilingualism, mostly Japanese and English has been pointed out, thus, there are some scholars who advocates to lecture children scientific topics such as mathematics in English rather than Japanese while other liberal courses such as History are taught in Japanese.