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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck finding qualified teachers for 3 more schools.  [/quote]

Well, they just need to find bilingual teachers for one grade per school. Not a huge lift.[/quote]

We were at one dual language school, and lots of teachers were mid-career professionals from PR.  They had experience teaching, skills in both languages/cultures, and it was a pretty easy shift.   [/quote]

Yes, many of the teachers are from PR.  Since hurricane Maria especially, a lot of Puerto Ricans have decided to leave for the mainland.

However, for these programs to work long term, there needs to be more training opportunities at US colleges for teaching ES in Spanish.  We can’t rely solely on recruiting teachers from elsewhere.[/quote]

PR is the US.[/quote]

Well ok I should have said universities besides those in PR. Better?  My point is that teaching reading and math in Spanish is different than teaching Spanish to high school students, and most Spanish teachers are trained for the latter.  Don’t get me wrong, I think we need more immersion programs, but in order for them to expand significantly we need more teachers trained to staff them.[/quote]

For some kids, it is a great opportunity, others not so much.  It would make more sense to have a specials class 2-3 days a week instead.  Kids can take foreign language starting in MS.[/quote]

I do wish there were more opportunities for kids at non-immersion schools to get some foreign language instruction in ES.  My sister and her family recently returned from an overseas posting where the kids received French lessons 3x per week at their international primary school (not a French speaking country).  The oldest then entered middle school here and had a leg up in their French class.  Early exposure is key to picking up a language.[/quote]

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