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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I volunteered and chaperoned throughout the year and found many of the kids almost completely unable to communicate in English. I guess I expected most would be verbally fluent, just needing help with written language. Not so at all. This led to other issues. For one, my son found it hard to make friends because outside of the formal instruction, there was little English spoken. Also, non-ESOL instruction was very limited because so few kids could understand the lessons. 
Bottom line was we definitely found downsides to a large ESOL population.  [/quote]

This has been our experience also.

DS found it tough to make friends - though, he did comment that he wanted to take Spanish!  And, he did learn some Spanish.

And, DH and I found it difficult to build relationships with the other parents.  Unfortunately we don't speak Spanish, and the other parents don't speak English, so we can only have a very superficial, polite relationship.  Tough to build relationships when you can't communicate!  I found this to be a big downside.  Talking to parents at other schools, there seemed to be more of a sense of community than what we had.[/quote]

But Chinese and French are sooooo much more useful and cool than learning Spanish, aren't they?  Most DCUM'ers are right about how useless Spanish is.   :lol:[/quote]

What do you mean?  I don't hear anyone saying that Soanish is not useful.[/quote]

I agree - I was confused about the Chinese/French post[/quote]

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