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You are confused on one key point: a kid's primary caretaker is his/ her parents.

No Spanish-speaking nanny supercedes an English-speaking family, sorry.[/quote]

No, you are being pedantic while failing to address the points raised.  "Primary caretaker" was clearly defined as the person who spends the most time with the child.  If you prefer different wording that's fine, but to pretend to not understand the argument is disingenuous.   The child in that example speaks Spanish as their primary form of communication, regardless of how it was acquired.[/quote]

Obviously the OP’s child doesn’t speak Spanish as her primary form of communication—or at least she didn’t on testing day.  [/quote]

That's not obvious; we know absolutely nothing about the test. All we know is that the OP was presumed to be not a native speaker, or the child was presumed to be English only by the principal. [/quote]

No, the OP said that he believes the principal didn’t know he was a native speaker.  That’s merely his opinion.

It’s OBVIOUS that the OP’s child did not demonstrate Spanish dominance because she FAILED the test—that’s not speculation.  It’s a fact.[/quote]

False: he said "I spoke to the principal Mayra Cruz. She had actually assumed my daughter only spoke English before the interview even took place." That isn't his opinion, it's what he learned from speaking to her.

Also, while she failed the test, we do not know 1) if the test was biased (based on assumption of English only, or anything else); 2) what even is the test; 3) if we should trust the test when clearly the child does speak fluent Spanish.

We are allowed to question the validity of the test, which we have no transparency about whatsoever.

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The OP said that the principal assumed his daughter only spoke English...based on what?!?  Why are you taking OP’s side without knowing what was ACTUALLY said during the conversation?

Btw, the principal doesn’t test the prospective students’ Spanish.  That’s handled by Oyster teachers.  We have no reason to believe that the Oyster teacher who tested the OP’s child was biased in anyway against his child.[/quote]

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