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My thought is making a majority Hispanic school a FLES school for Spanish should be a far lesser priority than [u]teaching everyone English[/u], be it through standard language arts instruction or ESOL resources.

I can think of better ways to spend the FCPS budget.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]So the basic premise of your argument is that these children being brown and having Spanish surnames and possibly having Spanish speaking parents would BY DEFINITION of their ethnicity and heritage NOT know English.[/quote]

SWOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSH

There goes a logic leap.

[quote=Anonymous]
 You have actual facts to back up the fact that ALL of these kids don't speak English and not just the ESOL ones???????? Well if that [u]were[/u] the case, that these kids don't know English at all, then you are correct. The first line of business would be to teach them English because that would be the pathway to success. A foriegn langauge would be a secondary concern.[/quote]

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[quote=Anonymous] I can't pull up the FCPS website right now (I think it's down) but pretty much all those kids do speak Spanish and there is a sizeable minority of kids that speak languages at home other than Spanish/English.[/quote]

Is that ALL of the 700 students? I am certain it is not. It might be 699. Or perhaps it is 698.  Therefore, it would not be "all."

But I read "pretty much all those kids do speak Spanish and there is a sizeable minority of kids that speak languages at home other than Spanish/English" as mostly speakers of languages other than English.  I interpret the word "mostly" as a majority of students.

Therefore, I am glad that you agree with me.[/quote]

You are also very astutely figured out that when one's argument fails to hold water resorting to distractions such as "SWOOOOSSSHHH is always the safer route. Because if you were to actually try to put together a logical argument, it would fail.

It can bother you till the cows come home that "those" kids are in that school but they will still be attending that school.

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