Social Justice: a "Fair Go"

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The choice of first  LOTE to be taught to our children can provide:

1. A "Fair Go" for your Child
  • Esperanto helps your child to succeed and feel capable.
  • Esperanto provides opportunities to learn about the whole world; its unity and diversity.
  • Esperanto is a flexible tool for early education which promotes success in later language learning, whatever the choice.
2. A "Fair Go" For Your Class
  • Choosing Esperanto shows respect for all cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
  • Esperanto gives all children a chance to succeed, whether they are generally gifted or disadvantaged.
  • Esperanto promotes literacy by its transparent grammar.
  • Esperanto offers something new to every child.

 3. A "Fair Go" for Australia's Children

  • Children in poor and rural areas are most often further disadvantaged by missing LOTE education for lack of a specialist. Esperanto doesn't need one.
  • Starting all over again with a different language when language teachers transfer, or kids change schools is not fair, and needn't happen if most primary schools to provide Esperanto LOTE using generalist teachers.
  • Our children deserve for their time to be used effectively and efficiently. One lesson per week is neither, but properly equipped generalist teachers can provide shorter, more frequent, more flexible and integrated learning opportunities.
  • Our children should be offered tasks that are achievable in the time available. Becoming bilingual is such a goal, as long as Esperanto is the first LOTE.

4. A "Fair Go" for the World’s Children

  • The 90% of children whose first language is not English are the least able to access medical, environmental or political help, and the least able to pay for the education that would change things.
  • They can learn Esperanto in between a fifth and an eighth of the time English would take, gain access to the world community through contact with Australians of the future, and still have time to master and use their own languages.
Serving our own children best serves these  best too. 
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