Foreign Born Parentage and Social Maladjustment

The lives of many of these parents are confined to their own national group and they are too busy earning a living and raising a family to learn the language of the country to which they have come to live. So it happens that they live in America for decades without becoming members of the American English speaking community. They continue to live the life of the country from which they came, keeping its language, customs and feasts. The child of such parents often does not learn an}7 English before entering school. Knowing little or nothing of the language spoken by the other children and the teacher, lie begins to feel out of place, lost and bewildered. This is his first step into the life of organized society and this step is a stumble. From the beginning lie feels different, inferior to the group, and a stranger among his mates. At the same time he comes to expect that allowances will be made for him. The teacher of course cannot expect at the start the same