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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter just told me that her 5th grade class has a new child that only speaks Spanish.  There is another child in the class that is kinda bilingual.  The teacher is using google translator to talk to her directly and she says after a few sentences when speaking to the whole class, she pauses so the other bilingual girl can translate to her the same few sentences, and then this continues every few sentences.  Does this truly happen in other schools?  Who just sends a 5th grader into a school, that doesn't know any English?  Does the teacher have to continue this bilingual lessons.  It must eat up so much time.  [/quote]

OMG.  I was that kid.  Except I was in 6th grade and had to learn Japanese. You must not get out much.[/quote]

Troll. Japan state schools would not have put you in with “6th grade” Japanese students. 
You would have had to Int’l school or start w the four year olds learning your kanji stroke order. Or some special ed school for gaijin who can’t afford intl school.[/quote]

Oh, if only MCPS could do this [/quote]

So, you'd be fine with frustrated middle school aged boys in with your preschooler?  Is that actually what you want?

Not to mention, given that this method has been shown to increase illiteracy, I assume you're OK with paying increased taxes to cover the costs from increasing unemployment.[/quote]

I think the ESOL and FARMS test data for 6th, 8th and 9th grades speaks for itself. The numerical and English literacy scores are beyond dismal year after year after year until the illiterate child times out of public school or drops out. Or maybe MCPS is like DCPS and keeps graduating people with high absenteeism and poor test scores and grades. [/quote]

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