Resolution on Student's Right

Morgan Evans
English 1100
September 17, 2015
Prof. Young

 

Freedom to Speak

 



When you look up the First Amendment you find that it says it is the right to communicate one's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship. And when you look more closely at the definition of freedom of speech it says communicate, now communicate doesn't mean to only speak English. Communicate simply means that there is a sharing or an exchanging of thoughts/information. 

So to say that one must speak only English even if its in a school setting. Everyone that lives in America has the right to speak however they want. Students should have the opportunity to speak their language. For the United States we do not have an official language so why do we make non-English students learn it? From The Resolution on Student's Right to Their Own Language it states "The claim that any one dialect is unacceptable amounts to an attempt of one social group to exert ts dominance over another."

The United States is known as a melting pot of diverse people from other countries. When people migrate to the US they bring with their language. In the US it is their right to speak how they want. In schools among the US should not be any different. The schools should allow students to express their identity, language, freely. In The Resolution on Student's Right to Their Own Language it says "We affirm strongly that teachers must have the experiences and training that will enable them to respect diversity" I agree from the excerpt when it says that the teacher should have the right training to respect the students diversity. Every student has different ethnicities and even some can speak the language, and if so they should be able to speak freely in class. Each person has their own identity and even in a class situation they should be allowed to openly express it.