they were put into these beginner classes, low first grade. it was a way to segregate within the school. these families sued. the attorneys made the argument that the children were being unfairly disadvantaged by being put into three levels of first grade. they decided to put children on the stand to demonstrate they could speak english as a defense. the district was saying, we have to do this because they don't know how to speak english. the attorneys decided to put children on the stand to demonstrate that. >> the argument that the district had was that if we have these mexican kids in our class who don't speak english, it sucks up all the teacher's time. so the english speaking kids are held back. the point was of the so-called mexican kids couldn't speak english. your mother is fourth generation american. >> that's correct. all the children that testified, the eight children were all u.s. citizens. they were all bilingual, fluent in english and spanish.