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Ok.  Where to start?  First, your English is perfect.  If your kids had a hard time learning English, which I doubt, it's because you chose to speak a different language at home.  It wasn't because you didn't understand/speak English like many poor immigrants.  My DC's best friend's parents have a hard time communicating with me and can't help their kids at all.  They also don't have the financial means for tutors.  Those kids deserve equity points.  Your kids, not so much.  My friends are from Sweden, they chose not to speak English at home, their kids do extremely well in school because the parents are well educated...Do you really think their kids are much more deserving of equity points because they speak another language at home?  [/quote]
Thank you for complimenting my English. When I came to the US, I didn't understand what people were saying. In the car, I started listening to NPR because they talk non-stop and do so clearly. I borrowed audio books from the library and listened to them at home. Why can't poor immigrants that you refer to listen to NPR and audio books and take free English courses? There are plenty of them online and on the CDs that can be borrowed from the library. Pre-COVID, they used to have free in-person English classes in the libraries. When the resources are readily available, it's a personal choice what to learn or not to learn. [/quote]

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