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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So glad DCUM people don't make the rules. The blatant racism in this thread is disgusting. For the lady who says that Spanish immigrants can teach her something, my family is from Spain. We're immigrants, though not poor. You don't have to be an impoverished Latin American to be a heritage speaker of a language or intimately attuned to the culture. I'm completely biliterate, always have been. At some point I might have been Spanish dominant and at some point English. The fluidity of this concept is not understood on this forum and people who might mean well are coming off as ignorant. [b]This is why the principal can use her judgment regarding who enters the school.[/b] This red-herring of English vs. Spanish dominant is nothing but a ruse. [/quote]

This makes no sense.  Lots of kids who get in as SD are by no reasonable definition of the term "Spanish dominant."  I'm thinking of the kid in my DC's class whose  only connection to any Spanish/Latin  culture is that his grandma is from Spain.

Spanish dominant should mean speaking Spanish better than English, at least when admitted.  Doesn't matter what your ethnicity is --- should be about language.[/quote]

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