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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The percentage of English language learners in New York State is over 10% and growing. In Mississippi it’s 3%. The “declining performance” in public schools is due to increased immigration, period. I work at a school with high numbers of language learners and this accounts for nearly all of our students below grade level. We are tossing kids into the system at age 5 with little English and little background in school and then somehow expecting it to even out.[/quote] This problem also gets worse in a non-linear fashion. I have a friend who started K in the early 90s speaking zero English and in a year she was fluent. Since she was the only non-English speaker, she had no choice but to learn and learn quickly. But if there had been 10 other kids who spoke her native language in the class, she surely would have stuck close to them and English would have taken a back seat.[/quote]
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