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[quote=Anonymous]DS attends NY Public in a beautiful coastal town that is considered affluent. That being said, nearly half of the 900+ kids are Hispanic. In MS, there were translators in any given classroom for ESL students. HS is also integrated but no translators in any classes. Students who are recently in the country or did not reach fluency by HS, have ESL classes on par with the same curriculum. All students can take honors or AP or IB. I was hoping the translators in MS would help DS achieve more fluency in Spanish. It’s his worst subject. Half of his friends are Spanish and are taking French or Latin. They struggle with helping DS with HW because they’ve been here a while as fluent English speaking students. Taught very differently and his friends find his work and tests difficult. Oh well! Diversity is a good thing if the school is offering advanced levels of teaching for all kids. This school does a very good job. Valedictorian this year was Hispanic boy, 1st gen that was accepted to 4 Ivies. They’re a competitive group of kids with little to no racial divide. [/quote]

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