“..a process school officials contend takes five to seven years.”
That’s only true if the school uses the “bilingual” model, in which the student takes classes in all subjects in both languages, and fails to master any subject or language.
A total immersion course takes 18-24 months to get a student up to grade level English. However, the social policy curriculum designers have said that having older students in classes causes more problems, so they don’t do it.
Deport.
That’s what I’ve wondered about with bilingual education.
I always wondered why they don’t take all those kids, and hold them back one school year, and just get them up to speed in English for that year. Then the next year, they can just be in regular English taught classes.
How is it that older kids cause trouble in these classes? Maybe they need their own class which would include some effective discipline techniques?? Just a thought.