(Those of us who still remember when speaking Spanish was prohibited (and punished) in the schools will relate to this old poem that was originally published in El Portavoz, the MEChA newsletter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984. It was later reprinted locally in Dr. G.F. McHale-Scully's El Rocinante in the Feb, 19, 1991 edition, more than 20 years ago. Note how every other line is in either Spanish or English, making it, in effect, bilingual.)
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ESTIMADO MISTER
By Juan Montoya
The school is yours
La lengua nuestra
And still you insist on English
Para niños y maestra
Speaking in Spanish, you say
Nos volvera analfabetos
But even Oxford's won't show you
Como se gana el respeto
Mexican, Cuban, Hispanic
No ve valor en ninguna
But we can function in both
Y Ud. solamente en una
You've never witnessed a child
Comprendiendo una lección
When you use his mother tongue
En vez de la del sajón
Your paperwork and degrees
Dis'que es persona educada
Maybe that's why you come up
Con tan chulas pendejadas
c/s