The U.S. holds low expectation when it comes to bilingual proficiency. Too MANY Americans accept the claim that foreign language instruction is a dismal failure, that a large percentage of students will never become fluent (Snow, 2017). When immigrants enroll their kids to school they believe their kids will become bilingual, but often times they are only becoming proficient in English rather than their native language, because the U.S. holds that mentality of students learning English and often forgetting their first language. If you visit other countries you will often find people speaking English, which is pretty much a commodity for us Americans, but if we reverse the roles they will hardly find anyone in the U.S. that speaks their language. Schools in other countries like Scandinavian countries, and European strongly believing in raising bilingual, and trilingual students; often English being one of the languages.
Snow, C. (2017, August 2). The true failure of foreign language instruction. Retrieved May 20, 2020, from https://phys.org/news/2017-08-true-failure-foreign-language.html