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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is in 4th in a dual language school. Parents are monolingual and the kid will be nowhere near fluent by the end of 5th. Honestly, that's fine with me. She has a good accent, understands conversational spanish, and can read at a low level. Math in spanish is fine. The bigger challenge for our family is that our kid is really lagging in English reading and we seem to be the only people who thinks that's a problem. For years we raised concerns and were told that we should expect a lag for kids learning bilingually. Now, I've got a kid who is reading at a beginning 3rd grade level at the end of 4th (after 2 years of private OG tutoring from a certified reading specialist out of pocket because the school wouldn't provide services). Dual language isn't great for kids from monolingual homes who have academic challenges, and you can't know if your kid will struggle academically until you are in it. Add to that, the bigger issue of urban school with limited resources and here we are.

Eventually, I would like to send the kid for a summer to a spanish speaking country and I think she would come back close to fluent, which is certainly more than I could ever hope to accomplish as someone who had minimal foreign language exposure as a kid.[/quote]

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