Native Spanish speaker Jazmina Sandoval said as a child, she felt a language barrier while in school. “I always felt like I was sheltered from my other peers that were only English-speaking,” she said during a recent Bilingual Education Students Organization meeting at Texas State University,....

explaining she began learning in a dual-language classroom and slowly transitioned to an English-speaking classroom. Now she said she is becoming a bilingual teacher to give students opportunities she never had as a child.

“I want to be able to show [students]that even though my first language is Spanish, I’m still capable of doing things, and so are you.”

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