In Oakland, five-year-old Travell De Shawn Louie was, without any parental notification, placed in a bilingual kindergarten classroom in which children were taught in Cantonese, even though the child was black and only spoke English (or perhaps Ebonics, another of Oakland's language offerings). After his father complained to the principal, the child was eventually moved to a classroom in which he was taught in English geared towards Chinese speakers.

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