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[quote=Anonymous]One of the best things about our kids being in public school in ACPS (sorry, we are not in APS) is friends from different cultures who speak multiple languages. There are many kids in my son's class for whom English is not their first language and they are fully billingual or even trilingual. Meanwhile, my kids only speak English. Their school doesn't even offer Spanish until middle school while the neighboring public school is Spanish immersion. Your child's life will be much richer for having diverse classmates. My son went to an immersion preschool for kids with disabilities and learned to speak American sign language. Now my sons are learning Amharic and Spanish as well as Russian, Arabic, Farsi, French. I LOVE that my kids have friends with parents who are new Americans or who are new Americans themselves. And FYI, most public schools have language learner teachers and reading specialists who pull out language learners to help them. Like someone earlier said, my kids are the ones at a disadvantage. My husband speaks four languages, I speak Spanish, but we are not a multilingual home as they are not our native languages. Guess who misses out? our kids. Our lives are much richer from these families. And maybe they don't have cars or email or other material things but we welcome them to our homes or meet up at the playground or park. Wow. There is a lot of veiled racism and xenophobia in the comments from your neighbors.[/quote]

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