Structured Immersion is an ESL (English as Second Language) program designed to be a bilingual instructional tool for students who are in a sense none native English speakers. Even though this program is still used in some US states as well as in other parts of the world, it is to my point of view a masked excuse of a program created to control the essence of a language by teaching on a need to know basis the true sense of bilingualism.

This Program is a really bad copy of a program used in Canada. In Canada their bilingual immersion is introduced through strong instruction in two languages for grades k through 12, the United States copied it but failed to implement the most crucial element which was that the students native language was not included in the instruction and teachers only taut in...