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They could always do what schools did before: send you home with a note that you are not to come to school until you learned English.  Happened to my father and he returned months later into the K class. Still have the note. And guess what, besides learning English, he also learned setting goals, discipline, how to sit still, and how his home language related to English grammar and vocab.

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When was this? English-language learners have had a right to targeted help from the public schools since the Supreme Court case of Lau v. Nichols in 1974, followed by the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974.

Here is Lau v. Nichols:  http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=414&invol=563
Here is the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/chapter-39/subchapter-I

If MCPS sent English-language learners home until they had learned English, MCPS would be violating federal law.[/quote]

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