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[quote=Anonymous][quote]FWIW, this has not been my experience. The kids are pulled out for ESOL, and they learn English quickly. [b]Some of this will depend on whether you live somewhere with a constant stream of new immigrants. Our neighborhood has sort of mid-priced affordable apartment buildings. [/b]So, around $1600 for a 2 bedroom. At that price point, you get working class families with low but not nonexistent English language skills, so their kids might enter kindy needing ESOL but eventually age out of it.[/quote]

Yes, not all kids enter with nonexistent English skills only in kindergarten.  Many with nonexistent English skills enter in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc., etc.  Immigrants come at all times and with kids at all ages.  Also, an apartment community is transient and probably more likely to have this constant stream.

If they only entered in kindergarten with no English skills, there would be no problem.  Kids at that age pick up the language quickly and learn to read along with all their peers.  It is the later entrants who struggle more, especially if they have not been schooled in their home language.  [/quote]

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