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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child will be entering PreK 4. I hope he will do well as this will be his third language next to English and Spanish.[/quote]

Sorry, but if your kids don't have real Spanish exposure at school they won't be able to read, write, and probably not even speak proper Spanish over time.[/quote]
What a stupid thing to speculate on. You have no idea what this child's Spanish language skills are or will be.[/quote]

I'm the original poster. My son is bi-racial African American and Mexican. We speak to our son in our native language, I in English and is dad in Spanish. Although reading and writing will be a separate task it's something that we work on daily. [/quote]

If the principal doesn't even speak the native language and can't be bothered to learn it, what ever it is, I certainly wouldn't send my child there. The idea that any language, and 2 or 3 languages just for the sake of it is a good model for a school is ridiculous. An individual can do what they like, and more power to them, but the idea that you'll become fluent without additional exposure is ludicrous if none of your family, community, or wider circle speak the language. Goodness, that's why they use the language intake from at DCPS and other schools. Many ELL students were born in the USA but because the dominant language at home is not English there English is often not as fluent (at least in reading and writing) as it could be. Sela is a great idea for a private school but as a tax payer funded charter school it is a joke. [/quote]

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