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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bottom line is that most of these children do not come from homes that foster academics and assimilation. My grandfather immigrated from Italy 100 years ago at age 7 and was instantly put into public school in the U.S. He knew zero English. But his family didn't immigrate to the U.S. for him to fail in school, so he picked it up.[/quote]

Even more recently, my good friend as a kid (who is now in her 30s) moved from Germany to the US in 2nd grade. She spoke no English whatsoever upon arrival but was speaking meaningfully within a month and fluent with virtually no accent by mid 3rd grade. I have family friends whose kids are in their teens who were stationed in Germany and sent their kids to German schools. They picked up the language and are fluent after being stationed there for 2 years.

Immersion has been shown time and time again to be the most effective way for kids to learn a language. ESOL students should 100% be in mainstream classrooms, there just needs to be stronger expectations that they pick up English for use at school and that also needs to be communicated to their families. [/quote]

[b]Have there been studies about the effect on the other kids in the classroom[/b]? I ask because while immersion might be great for the kid, she’s only one of many in the classroom.[/quote]

This has to be highlighted again. What are the benefits to the native English speaking kids in the classroom? Are we just expected to pay for our child to enrich others while getting nothing beneficial in return? These kids increase classroom size and decrease teacher attention to remaining students all while costing more to educate.[/quote]

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