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[quote=Anonymous]What town are you living in? The public school is almost certainly adequate to finish out this year - NY public schools are generally good to great, depending on the district. If it’s bad, look at the local Catholic school if private schools don’t have a midyear slot. As most others have noted, boarding school at 12 is not common in this country. The good schools don’t board at that age here. Bring him home, put him in public school and let him do things like watch tv, game with other kids, play sports, and he’ll pick up the language quickly. When I was a kid, I started out in NYC public schools and they didn’t really have strong ESL - they had kids coming in all the time from all kinds of countries. They would just throw the kids in the classes, and in six months those kids would be speaking English. The biggest challenge with foreign language learners is when they are not literate in their native language - you have to try to adapt to two issues at once.[/quote]
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