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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is first grade now. Last year 6/13 kids didn’t speak and English and also ended the school year not speaking English. Ours were only Spanish speaking and it was a high poverty population as well (versus some of kids whose parents are diplomats or whose parents are on high tech visas and are educated). It was hard in quite a few ways. Kids who are near grade level are ignored and put on computers. I was shocked that my kid spend 3+ hours a day on a computer. Half the class was taught in Spanish, which I liked because my kid picked up phrases (Dh and I speak Spanish). The only pull outs were for language because 100% of their attention was focused on that. Not reading or math.

Something that bugged me was that we only received birthday invites from white and Asian kids. But when I hosted the birthday party, only those kids came. There basically was a lot of segregation. Some caused by the language barrier, some social barrier. One mom told me (in Spanish) that they don’t do play dates.

Seems like the county should run English camps or preK to try to head off the language issue before school starts. Or teach in both Spanish and English so all kids could learn two languages. [/quote]

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