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What a simplistic analysis. BEING bilingual versus learning another language are not the same at all. You don' grasp that distinction, do you? If a person grows up where multiple languages are spoken they interact with, that actually is just one language.
This may come as a shock to you, but in fact English is not only a bilingual language, but a multilingual language. Most languages are.
Where schools try to teach in both Spanish and English, those students do significantly worse in all testing categories.
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/rwc/...ingualandESLonAcademicAchievement_Sep2012.pdf
"Checkmate."