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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue of dominant language is pretty straight-forward and leaves little room for interpretation: if your child's first language is Spanish, meaning that they speak Spanish at age level, and English at some lower level or not at all, then they are Spanish-dominant. If the opposite is true, then they are English-dominant. It's not about being fluent enough to lie their way through the test. They could be very fluent in Spanish (good for them!), but if their native tongue is English and they speak English at home, they are English-dominant. We are immigrants and speak Spanish at home. Our daughter, who was born here, speaks Spanish at home and at her Spanish-immersion daycare. She speaks a few words in English that she picked up from her classmates, but only Spanish at age-level. She is the poster child for Spanish dominance, and that's how we applied to Oyster. We are waitlisted, and we hope that a space that should go to her is not taken by someone who lied on their application.[/quote]

I really hope that your daughter gets in too!  Parents should be ashamed of themselves for stealing seats at Oyster from their intended students.  The definition of a native Spanish speaker isn't hard to understand...unless you're being willfully ignorant.[/quote]

It actually is more complicated than that. It sounds like both parents here are Spanish speaking, so that's easy. But if one parent is native Spanish and the other native English, and languages spoken at home are 50/50, then perfectly bilingual children are quite possible. I know several. It is just that these "biracial" (not really, more like "bilingual") marriages are still statistically less common than people marrying within their own ethnicity, as PP has done. So people are more accustomed to seeing clearly Spanish or English dominant. 
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