Her story:

My mom, whom I will continue to refer to as Sally in my blogs, was born and raised in San Antonio, TX and attended Edgewood ISD schools from Pre-K through High School.  She then left for college in 1971 at Texas A&M University to study Engineering and also is where she met my dad who was also studying engineering.  Sally's 1st language was Spanish and it wasn't until Pre-K or Kindergarten when she started to learn English.  Although both of Sally's parents, my grandparents, were from the Texas they choose to only use Spanish at home.  From the start Sally got negative feedback from her primary language.  Perhaps the most disturbing was that her real name on her birth certificate is Celia and not Sally.  Sally said the reason this is because that her teachers could never pronounce it so they changed her name for her and it stuck with her throughout her schooling.  Another negative thing about her language experience with Spanish was that if she spoke it as school she would get punished.  When asked if her parents had a relationship with the teacher she said that those relationships were nonexistent especially since all her teachers where white in Elementary school and didn't speak Spanish.  Another interesting aspect to note, was that she always seemed to be behind in her schooling until she reached high school because she maintained Spanish predominantly and only used English in school.