[GeronL]

how about English immersion, teach them quickly

[reaganaut1]

I think many of the English language learners are in classes taught in English. As I said, the problem is not that they don’t know any English but that their higher-order skills are weak.

[quadrant]

Perhaps the child's parents should have followed the example set by Goro Sakagawa a fictional character in James A Michener’s novel “Hawaii”.

[BigBobber]

California voters, by an overwhelming majority, passed Proposition 227 mandating English-immersion schooling in 1998.

Democrat leftists in charge of education, to their eternal shame, broke the law and ignored it. The child in the article who can’t speak English after 11 years in Los Angeles public schools is a product of their arrogance and lawlessness.

[Bigg Red]

how about English immersion, teach them quickly

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No, no, can’t do that. There are far too many ESOL teachers who are running up the cost of public education by having these illegals in their classes.

[jttpwalsh]

how about English immersion

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Back in the “olden days” (’74), there were two guys, fresh off the boat, from Portugal, in my study hall. They couldn’t speak A WORD of English, but they were good guys. Another guy, whose parents were Portuguese, would translate, and, we became friendly, in spite of the language barrier.

Three years later, I was walking to class in the local college, and someone called my name. After exchanging some pleasantries, I said “Henry, you speak wonderful English - how so?”. “This is America, if you want to live here, you better learn” he replied. Too bad he didn’t have some government program, watching out for his “best” interest /s.

[raybbr]

“”how about English immersion, teach them quickly”””

See- it’s racist, xenophobic, bigoted and demeaning comments like that that gives FR a bad name.

[VanShuyten]

I taught ESL for 30 years, and I know why. Many studies have shown that just two years of intensive English brings the non-English speaker up to near native speaker level.

However, that makes the students lag behind in other areas. The social costs of having older students in other classes was deemed too great, so they went with bilingual classes in which neither the coursework nor the English was mastered.

Go figger.