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[quote=Anonymous]It's funny the comment (intended as snark, I assume) about people acting as if Spanish is not important.  I think one of the very frustrating things for parents with children assigned to schools with high percentage ESOL students is that the schools actually discourage spanish instruction for the english speaking kids.  The first priority is to get everyone going with english, and establishing special programs that leverage the multiple languages at work in the classroom to everyone's benefit is the last thing that principals want to do.  High stakes testing is no joke to the school, and muddying the water by keeping spanish alive in the classroom might hold the scores down.  It's not that the parents don't want their kids to learn spanish - not at all.  Instead, it's that their kids are plopped into a learning environment dominated by spanish speaking students, but their kids are then not given any meaningful instruction in the language - leaving the kids frustrated by communication barriers and the parents disappointed by the obvious fact that the schools are openly prioritizing bringing other kids up to speed rather than providing rich learning opportunities to their own kids.  Any maybe it's asking too much of the overwhelmed school districts to think outside of the box etc., but it shouldn't surprise anyone that the parents of the english speaking kids express frustration with the language barriers their kids face in high ESOL schools where the schools aren't teaching spanish.[/quote]

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