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[quote=Anonymous]OK, I take your point on BS.  Sorry.  I am really upset by the PPs who've made comments like "don't let the door hit you in the a@@ on the way out" but I don't have to stoop to their level.

I understand what you mean about book rooms and this is something I have felt acutely with the SI program.  I feel that my DC has never received a rich exposure  to literature -- the SI teachers just don't read novels aloud to the kids.  I know children in other schools whose teachers read to them daily.  The other huge disadvantage is that there's very little Spanish children's literature available -- it's all translations.  This means SI kids miss out on a depth of language and cultural reference in Spanish.

However, I can't imagine that this rises to the level of inequity.  First of all, since there are only two classes of EA kids per grade, there is not a need for that many multiple sets.  Second of all, if this is an issue why hasn't it been cited as such? I have been at RCF for six years and have never heard this issue raised. I love the book fairs and would have been glad to donate books to the program, just as one example.  But it's never been asked.

A set of scholastic novels for a classroom would cost around $100.  If this were really a hardship, why not get it on the PTA agenda?  There were parents trying to raise thousands for extra computers -- surely this wouldn't be a stretch.  I would write a check for $100 right now to buy a set of books for any classroom you could name, EA or SI.

I just don't see how a few hundred dollars for some paperback books represents inequity.  To me, that's more a problem with the overall leadership of the school -- why isn't this an issue on the table, from the administration or the PTA?

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