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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t tell if we’re just unlucky in terms of teachers, but I have to say our experience has been very underwhelming. Thus far, most teachers have not been native or bilingual Spanish speakers. (Think: [b]Senora Rosenberg[/b].)

The quizzes and assignments I’ve seen at the high school level are ridiculous. I’m bilingual (studied Spanish k through 12 at private schools and earned a BA in Spanish), and the instruction and metrics seem ridiculous.

Care to comment on your kid’s experience?  Care to share your school or pyramid? I will if you will. [/quote]

Or Kreutzberger or Blumenfeld. Ridiculous. Everybody knows there aren't any people in Spanish-speaking countries with an ethnic heritage from Jewish Eastern/Central Europe!

Or, um, something.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-don-of-latin-american-tv-says-adios-after-53-years/[/quote]

Op here.

Yes, I realize that.

[b]But this specific Jewish woman doesn’t speak Spanish fluently nor can she pronounce words correctly in Spanish. [/b]

My Spanish is better than hers. Dramatically better.

I learned Spanish starting in K from native speakers (one from Cuba, one from Spain, one from Puerto Rico; all were well educated/affluent). [/quote]

OP, as you should know, the issue here is not that her name is Rosenberg, or that she's Jewish. The issue is that she doesn't speak Spanish well (in your opinion).

Another thing that's not the issue: how affluent your native-speaker Spanish teachers were when they were growing up.[/quote]

Rosenberg, Smith, O’Leary: the point is the teacher learned Spanish in the US as a student, and didn’t fully master it yet she is teaching.

And affluence and education absolutely do play a role when it comes to a native speaker’s mastery of the language. [b]Very few Latinos growing up in MoCo today receive formal Spanish education outside of the home. [/b]Affluent kids do—both here and abroad. I grew up with kids at my private school whose parents worked at the World Bank, etc. Those kids went to special schools each week for additional classes in their native tongue (think: Greece, Argentina, China, etc.). [/quote]

I guess you're the expert on Latinos in MoCo.[/quote]

Can you name a special school that teaches formal written Spanish and the history/culture of a specific country? One for Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador (noting most Latinos in moco are from El Salvador)? And, what’s the tuition? Who pays for it?

Affluent dc metro area parents from abroad have sent their kids to special programs (after school/mostly weekends) for decades.

If you’re from here, don’t you know someone who went to “Greek school”? Every Greek I know who grew up here went to it. Close friends went to Argentina school. And we have specialty Chinese schools in moco (including Chinese summer camps). None of this stuff is cheap. Low income kids aren’t attending costly programs.[/quote]

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