Why wouldn't you pick immersion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you should maybe meet a few teachers of schools here in DC who teach bilingual education. The ones I've spoken to at Mundo Verde and LAMB were all native speakers who spoke flawless English and Spanish. I did not go to other schools but I'm sure that they have excellent truly bilingual native speakers as well. I'm sorry you shortchanged your students in the 90s, but that's not the case here (as far as I know).

My talented hairdresser is a native English speaker who speaks flawless English and so does my cousin who works at Subway. Neither of them went to college. They both are wonderful people but I wouldn't want them teaching my kid formal academics. Were were the teachers at MVP and LAMB educated - in the US or abroad in a Spanish-speaking country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you should maybe meet a few teachers of schools here in DC who teach bilingual education. The ones I've spoken to at Mundo Verde and LAMB were all native speakers who spoke flawless English and Spanish. I did not go to other schools but I'm sure that they have excellent truly bilingual native speakers as well. I'm sorry you shortchanged your students in the 90s, but that's not the case here (as far as I know).

My talented hairdresser is a native English speaker who speaks flawless English and so does my cousin who works at Subway. Neither of them went to college. They both are wonderful people but I wouldn't want them teaching my kid formal academics. Were were the teachers at MVP and LAMB educated - in the US or abroad in a Spanish-speaking country?

So bizarre - if they speak flawless English, why are you so sure you wouldn't want them teaching English? All sorts of people get trained and become teachers. Do you really think all good teachers just emerged from the womb with a big "T" for teacher on their foreheads and no one else should even try?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you should maybe meet a few teachers of schools here in DC who teach bilingual education. The ones I've spoken to at Mundo Verde and LAMB were all native speakers who spoke flawless English and Spanish. I did not go to other schools but I'm sure that they have excellent truly bilingual native speakers as well. I'm sorry you shortchanged your students in the 90s, but that's not the case here (as far as I know).

My talented hairdresser is a native English speaker who speaks flawless English and so does my cousin who works at Subway. Neither of them went to college. They both are wonderful people but I wouldn't want them teaching my kid formal academics. Were were the teachers at MVP and LAMB educated - in the US or abroad in a Spanish-speaking country?

It depends on the teacher but I believe they were educated in the U.S. and did course work in their native countries. But remember thats a lot of teachers so I'm just generalizing.

And I wouldn't want your hairdresser educating my kids either. Please try to keep your xenophobic tendencies in check.