Teachers consider learning two languages to be too overwhelming for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations.
Since children from poor families often are identified as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate.
Because young children can make sentences they have never heard before, Chomsky suggested that human infants are born with the ability to learn language.
So the figures for the growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment, a growing in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.