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[quote=Anonymous]Coming from a fully bilingual family at a dual language school, I'll share that with our older child, we really only spoke Spanish at home and that child was not truly exposed to English until school. Within 6 months of preschool that child spoke a lot of English, none of it from home (some of the phrases were hilarious, and we could prove they didn't come from home, or TV, whatever). The second child didn't arrive until the first one was an English speaker already, and we had softened our focus on Spanish because the older child was so easily and effectively bilingual. That child stopped getting ELL tested in second grade.

Now the second child didn't catch on as fast and entered school as a passive Spanish "understander" and English speaker, only. There was too much English spoken at home during the second kid's early childhood. Frankly, if that child had been tested the child could have been dinged as a Spanish-speaking child, despite our ability to show our household fluency - because the younger one didn't express their ability to speak Spanish.

And in some ways I would agree with that outcome in spite of the same family, same fluency, but for that child at that child's age (now PS). That child needs more support to be a truly bilingual student, and the support is not in English.

Overall the process can be maddening, but there can be variation within families, and it can affect what might happen to your child's schooling![/quote]

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