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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our ES has had several students  from upper middle class, professional families immigrate over the summer in the past and arrive speaking nothing but Chinese, Russian, or Korean. There are some other students that speak these languages and sometimes yes, the teacher will ask them to translate important directions or questions for the student so they aren't totally lost. This usually lasts about a third of the school year, then they stop needing it, and by a year later they are on or above grade level and you can't tell they ever didn't speak English. So no, this phenomenon is not just an "illegal immigrant" (code: poor Hispanic) thing. Children's brains have an amazing capacity for language. [/quote]

+100 OP you never had a kid move to your area from a foreign country when you were a kid?  I always thought it was fun. This is not a new phenomenon. All kids are required to be in school by law. Relax. Maybe your kid can learn something from this experience. [/quote]

Pretty sure this isn't even close to the same situation.  And no, I never had a student enter any of my classes as a complete non-speaking student that needed complete translation when I was growing up.  The fact that you think everyone has is very very strange.  [/quote]

DP. Why strange? It's not so common that it's happened to everybody, but it's not that rare, either. I was in several classes where this happened, in the 1970s and 1980s.[/quote]

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