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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My next door neighbor is a teacher at Weller Rd.  Distance learning has been a struggle.  Out of her class is 18, she said she was lucky if 5 kids logged on.  They got the kids chrome books and hot spots.  They send home information in Spanish how to log in.  What they didn’t count on was the adults in the home not being able to read Spanish.[/quote]

Interesting that they didn't count on that.  It's a well-known issue that many in the Latinx population do not have literacy in Spanish and may not speak Spanish at all (they speak indigenous languages).  That's part of why the term "Hispanic" is often not accurate, since it means Spanish-speaking and therefore excludes people who speak indigenous languages as well as Portuguese and French.[/quote]

That's not what the pp meant. She means they don't know how to read-at all. In any language. A known problem in poorer communities as a whole and even more so for families who recently immigrated from very poor countries.

I grew up in an area such as that and the high school I attended offered free English classes for parents of students in the school district. They were always full.[/quote]

This.

The neighborhood that feeds into Weller Road is generally filled with recent immigrants, not second or third generation more affluent and bilingual Latinos. The average English-speaking person simply wont fit in. No play dates or birthday parties. No welcome wagon. And very little English if any in the cafeteria or playground.

The school’s demographics are online. [/quote]

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