Living in California comes with the socio-cultural belief that the only approved and acceptable language to speak is English. Looking at our schools and multicultural society, it is exactly the opposite. From an education perspective we see the influx of languages ​​and students born or emigrated to America. Most children who do not speak English today are born in the United States. Our civil rights states that we are equal in human rights to receive the same treatment even in educational programs. In California our primary language taught in public schools is English. Our English ethnocentrism led to the Nationality Act of 1906 which required immigrants to speak English for naturalization purposes, which led to the Security Act of 1950 which also required reading and writing in English. Throughout our historical evolution of civil rights we have seen several instances of fighting for equal rights, including fair treatment of our non-English speaking students. Looking at the historical foundation of language and instruction for English learners, parents have become angry at the discrimination that occurs in our public school systems. Major historical changes have taken place since the “sink or swim” mentality of public English learner education in the early 1900s. According to http://www.colorincolorado.org/policy/history/ the timeline provided below , some of the key indicators have been established to get us to where we are today in terms of equal rights to education for all students. • Civil Rights Act of 1964: Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in the operation of all federally assisted programs.• The Bilingual Education Act, Title VII of the Elem. ..... half of the paper ......evidence could help make an impact on our ever-evolving multicultural state of California. As teachers we can incorporate students' native language as part of learning by teaching them the requirements that California has established as the standard language. Works CitedFoundations for Multilingualism in Education (Caslon, 2011) ELL Policy History. Retrieved from http://www.colorincolorado.org/policy/history/A Chronology of Federal Law and Policy Impacting Language Minority Students Edited by: Texas Education Agency (2011) Retrieved from (http://www.colorincolorado.org/article /50856 /).Krashen, Stephen D Second Language Acquisition and Second Language LearningPearson Custom Text Ch. 17 p. 353O'Connell, Jack, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Observations on the State of Education, 2006 www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/.../elfaq.doc‎Pearson Custom Text Education SPE 481 Chapter 17 page. 328-353