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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I don't believe parents should hire someone who does not speak English, more for safety reasons than anything else, I don't think this is as big of an issue as she would like to have you believe it is.  
  A bad nanny is a bad nanny, no matter what language they speak.  And any nanny who isn't teaching a child verbal language is a bad nanny.  But this is also saying that parents aren't speaking to their children at all?  That is very hard to believe that these children aren't learning appropriate English skills for their age.   But just because a child has a nanny who isn't an English speaker does not mean they will end up in an ESL class.   And even less likely, a speech therapy class.  
  But when a child starts school, you know who they will be learning most of their speech mannerisms from?   Their peers.  I think a lot of these issues will work themselves out without automatically throwing these kids into an ESL class.

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Twenty years ago few children needed speech therapy. Now we all know children who need it. Why?[/quote]

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