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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people on this board talk about how they pay hundreds of thousands more for homes in specific neighborhoods because of the schools. They believe they are so vastly superior to other neighborhoods because they confer an advantage to the children who attend them. This appears to be a mainstream belief that the county has addressed with its cohort criteria.[/quote]

Since when is sending your kid to a school with a bunch kids who don’t know any subjects or any language well going to be the preferred education for your literate child?  Of course you’re not going to GI ti that school to attend that school, you might go to test in to a center but not year after year.[/quote]

The idea that there are people who believe that there are kids in school who "don't know any language well."

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I'm an ESOL teacher and that absolutely happens. There are students who understand and speak using conversational language in their first language (BICS), but have very little academic language (CALP) in their first language which makes it much harder to learn it in English since they're learning both the concept and the language simultaneously rather than already being familiar with the concept and just learning the English word for it. It becomes very difficult to fill those deep gaps once the content becomes more complex.

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/bics_calp.php[/quote]

As an ESOL teacher, you know the difference between "don't have academic language" and "don't know any language well."[/quote]

Knowing a language well includes all facets of the language. I can communicate in Spanish in social situations, but I can't describe a 3D shape or explain the water cycle in Spanish (both are part of the Kindergarten curriculum in MCPS). I wouldn't say that I know the language well due to the fact that I only have BICS in Spanish.

So, if Spanish (or Amharic, Chinese, Korean, French etc) is my native language but I don't have academic language in my native language at a Kindergarten level then that would be considered not knowing any language well. [/quote]

My kids couldn't do that in their native language (English) when they were 5, either. But I don't think anybody on DCUM would claim that my kids, at 5, didn't know any language well.[/quote]

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