Despite the evidence that immersion is the one method that actually produces speakers, many American Indian groups still resist it. Instead the language is doled out in minute quantities as if it were toxic and too much might be harmful. These teachers make learning their own language as meaningless, difficult, and boring as many subjects taught in school. I have to wonder if this approach is the result of being schooled themselves.
Learning should be a joyful activity, so why are we making it such a chore?
I have to wonder if this joylessness is the result of joyless experiences that teachers have had in their own schooling. And the teachers perpetuate this cycle of joylessness. Teaching without joy could be classified as an abusive activity, and I, for one, would like to end this cycle of abuse. It is self-defeating.
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