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Reply to "Why start a Spanish FLES program at a majority Hispanic school?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking Spanish in those households may be all that goes on. The parents may not be able to read and write in Spanish and neither may their children.[/quote] If they are attending public schools, shouldn't the kids be learning English? Isn't that what ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) is for?[/quote] Yes, they are learning English but Spanish as a second language. ESOL is mainly for if you have probelms with English. But if you speak English just fine because your were born and raised here but you happen to be exposed to Spanish at home it makes no sense to forbid that child from taking Spanish as a second langauge. I am betting that if the second language being taught at schools were French you wouldn't have a problem with it and wouldn't even bring up ESOL.[/quote]
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