Abstract
ollowing the lead of California's Proposition 227, which passed in June 1998, Arizona's Proposition 203 effectively eliminated bilingual education in that state as of November 2000, signifying that attacks continue on native language instruction at local, state, and national levels. The refusal to see English as a second language (ESL) as only one part of a necessary holistic language learning goal-bilingualism or multilingualism-leads many scholars to argue that every government should guarantee basic linguistic human rights to all children in the educational system, in day care centers, schools, and institutions of higher education. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (2000), a well-known linguistic human rights activist and scholar, provides the following bill of rights:
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