Posted on 08/14/2008 4:06:05 PM PDT by dynachrome
FORT PIERCE — Students taking their first steps into the world of learning at Chester A. Moore Elementary this fall will be able to take advantage of a new curriculum designed to develop proficiency in two languages.
The school will become the first in St. Lucie County to host a dual-language program that provides instruction in English and Spanish for students in kindergarten and pre-kindergarten.
C.A. Moore Principal Keith Davis said the curriculum, commonly referred to as a 50:50 immersion program, will help Spanish-speaking students learn English while providing English-speaking students with an opportunity to start learning Spanish at an early age.
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“The better to eat you, my dear.”
What if the Americans do not chose to learn spanish. After all they do not live in Spain.......
How does the splitting of a class into 2 different language increase a child's opportunity to understand the topic.
How does the district create time out of vacuum?
Every child will lose out.
The elementary school I attended in Ohio taught French to everyone starting in grade one. I’m all for learning new languages, but the focus should be on those children becoming proficient in english, not spanish. And frankly, those anchor babies who speak only spanish and their illegal alien mothers should be deported. I’ve never researched it, but wonder who’s hairbrained idea it was to provide these kids with an education.
To the overlords, teaching a child to “speak” in two different languages is much safer than teaching said child to think, to compute, or to reason.
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