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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the school board approved the proposal to shift MVCS back to a traditional calendar year last night.

This without polling parents.

This without a committment to fully fund the alternative summer learning program.

The meeting was a fiasco, IMO, and demonstrated exactly why we will not be sending our rising Kindergartener to MVCS.  Every discussion was about helping ESL students and pumping more and more finding into programs for ESL students at the expense of the non-ESL kids.  We would have been excited for the intercession program for our child, and the opportunity to learn and expand his horizons in different areas during school vacation breaks.

Now, that taxpayer money which would have benefitted our non-ESL son is going to be pumped into more and more ESL programs during the summer, which will not benefit him at all.

School Board:  You are alienating and offending the higher taxpayers in the city![/quote]

The PP may be having a bit of an extreme reaction, but I also am the rising parent of a non-ESL kindergartener zoned for MVCS and am very concerned about the meeting last night.  I agree that the new proposal takes away certain benefits and funding from the non-ESL kids. The school board made it very clear last night that the goal of MVCS is to bring up ESL, promote ESL, and cater to ESL students. I understand that due to the fact that the school population is something like 70% ESL. But.....in doing so, they are going to even increase those numbers and the school will soon be 80%, 90% ESL.

What would be interesting, is to do a local survey to see exactly how many elementary-aged children live in the MVCS zone,  and then see how many of those children are actually enrolled at MVCS vs local privates and parochials.  Almost everyone we know who is non-ESL who is zoned for MVCS either transfers out or goes to private/parochial.  now I understand why. English speaking children appear to be the last concern at the school.

If the School Board is so intent on turning MVCS into a dual-language-only school that solely caters to the district's Latino / ESL populations, then why not turn it into a charter school or magnet school to serve that particular population?

The meeting last night made it obviously clear that the intent of the dual-language program is not to teach english speaking children Spanish. It is solely there to teach Spanish-speaking kids SOMETHING.

And it's NOT working!

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We are at another City elementary school and the situation is still the same.  Every school is catering to the ESL crowd. Your white, upper class kid isn't their concern because they know those kids will pass the SOL.[/quote]

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