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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a poor kid of illiterate or non English speaking parents will have no benefit or even regress if they attend free high quality pre-k?

Bull ! People are so scared of their mediocre kid getting outperformed by poor POC kids aren’t they? [/quote]

Our ESOL students who attend pre-k are so much better off than the ESOL students who start in kindergarten. It's hard to learn content at the same time as learning language. I've only had one student in the last 12 years who started in kindergarten with no English who was able to keep up with the grade level standards. She just started high school at the best high school in our district because she's incredibly intelligent. She tested out of ESOL in just two years. Amazing kid.[/quote]

It’s possible to keep up if the content has already been learned in another language.
That’s why MC kids test out so quickly out of ESOL
But if you essentially learn nothing in either language and it’s been like that for a few generations then yes it’s tough [/quote]

I teach in a Title 1 school. Most older newcomers have limited/interrupted education. It's not unusual to get Spanish speakers in grades 3-5 who cannot read or write in Spanish. I don't know any ESOL teachers in my district who teach MC students. [/quote]

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