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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter just told me that her 5th grade class has a new child that only speaks Spanish.  There is another child in the class that is kinda bilingual.  The teacher is using google translator to talk to her directly and she says after a few sentences when speaking to the whole class, she pauses so the other bilingual girl can translate to her the same few sentences, and then this continues every few sentences.  Does this truly happen in other schools?  Who just sends a 5th grader into a school, that doesn't know any English?  Does the teacher have to continue this bilingual lessons.  It must eat up so much time.  [/quote]

10 year olds are required to attend school regardless of what language they speak and schools are required to teach them.  This situation does not sound good especially for the translating child.  I assume if the new child speaks little English she will be spending most of her day in ESOL.  Maybe it just has not started yet.[/quote]

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