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Them, too? Welcome to the party, amigos!
Let them return to where they speak the language. Maybe after eight or ten years of study they can learn how to pick bananas. Or coconuts.
I guess spending $20,000 of taxpayer dollars per student per year isn’t enough.
These publick skool sewers are ripe for competition, we only need transferable vouchers and/or tax credits so kids and parents have choice.
“A growing proportion of the state’s MLL student community is older than other students at their grade level”
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so a 16-year from Guatemala cant even have the brainpower to learn at the 4th grade level? GTFO.
There shouldn’t be any non English speaking students here in the US. And if there are then it not the taxpayers problem to deal with it.
Funny, most countries expect the immigrant to learn the language of the country.
“Failing non-English speaking students.”
Gee, I wonder if there is a solution to this conundrum. I can’t seem to think of one.
Maybe the technique that my Dad used would work. He moved with his family to tenements in NYC in 1927 when he was three years old. He got beat up all the time until he learned to speak English. You either became an American or got beat up. Kids learned that lesson very quickly.
Then make it a requirement to have a green card or citizenship to be fluent in English and make all immigrants sign a pledge to speak English at home.
I’m know my English prose is problematic and stilted - a non-native English speaker. But I do OK.
My kids speak Hebrew, English, French, and Arabic (and a smattering of Yiddish for the relatives). It’s not that hard.
One weird trick: learn English!
Maybe their parents should take them back to their home country and teach them english.
JoMa
I asked a teacher friend of mine about this since she taught “English as a Second Language”(ESL)classes. She said wasn’t just teaching them English,but they were illiterate in their native language. So first she had to teach the basics of Spanish (Mexican is a mix of Spanish and local languages in each region) and then English. Two courses in the same time allotted to one.
A growing proportion of the state’s MLL student community is older than other students at their grade level, leaving them less time to finish high school by the age of 21.
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21? Now isn’t that just peachy-keen!
In my grandkids school in Washington, 50% of the kids spoke Spanish.
My mom never spoke a word of English until she started at the one room schoolhouse in 1923. She graduated from high school with honors.
I am strangely unmoved by the effects of having cast out the melting pot notion.
Go in dumb. Come out dumber.
Then they better learn English!!!
Close every spanish language radio and tv station.