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Complete ignorance. Parent knowledge of English has NOTHING to do with the student's success. It's their educational level and literacy level. A kid can no zero language when they get to K, but if the parents are educated and read to the child (in their own language or otherwise) and have books in the house, then the child will do well. The parent does not have to speak English well, only support the child's education. Plenty of Koreans in TJ with parents who barely speak English (I teach ESL to adults and have a lot of them in my class). The majority of ESL children in fcps were actually born in the US, and most of them don't even speak another language proficiently. The ones who struggle have parents who can't even read, even though their conversational English is probably passable at least. They can't read in ANY language. It would never occur to them to spend money on books, and they don't go to the library. The kids have poor nutrition and a host of problems caused by lack of medical care, prenatal care, parents' poor health, and so on. And that's assuming these are the relatively well-off ESL/FARM kids and not the ones who are sleeping on the floor of a rented room with 10 other kids in a crack house. [/quote]

Agree with you on the basics.  However, I bet that over 95% of those Korean kids at TJ with parents who are not fluent in English took prep classes for TJ for years before they got there.  Lots and lots of writing prep classes, too.

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I know they did.  And if they couldn't afford a class, then mom went out and bought prep books and made them study, staring about 1st grade with the Naglieri actually.  [/quote]

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