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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about white kids and other non-Latino kids who have grown up in Spanish speaking countries?  Oil brats, military folks, Foreign Service?  Surely you are not suggesting that one must be Latino to be fully bilingual. [/quote]

A previous poster already explained this. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It refers to one's primary language. If a military or embassy couple in Colombia has a kid there, is fully immersed in local culture and language, and as a result the kid feels most comfortable speaking Spanish, sure, he or she is Spanish dominant and can apply to one of those special spots at Oyster.

If not, he or she can apply to the school in the main English dominant group, like everyone else.[/quote]this illustrates the slippery slope of the "Spanish dominant" designation. There is no way a military brat is Spanish dominant coming from an American English-speaking couple in a Spanish speaking country. I'm just glad the principal has the common sense to tease out the exceptional cases of white and/or black children not of Hispanic ethnicity who have the same mastery of the language of supposed Spanish dominant speakers. This may be upsetting to inbound elitists who are mad that OOB Anglos can attend the school without the burden of a too-expensive mortgage, but that's there problem.[/quote]

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