Posted on 10/19/2022 8:30:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (AP) — As part of an exercise to help the class learn English, a third grader pulled a block from a Jenga tower and read aloud a question written on one side. “Where,” the boy read, then slowly sounded out the other words: “Where would you like to visit?”
“Disneyland,” one student said. “Space,” another classmate chimed in. “Guatemala,” said a girl with a bright blue bow.
This northern Alabama community with large numbers of Hispanic immigrants is using federal COVID-19 relief money for an experiment to serve students who are still learning English. They are hiring and certifying more local, Spanish-speaking staff, like Alfaro. She was previously a Spanish teacher.
More than half of 2,500 students in the small Russellville city school district identify as Hispanic or Latino, and about a quarter are still learning English — known as EL students.
But the district at times has struggled to find the people and money necessary to help EL students achieve. It typically takes five years of intensive, small-group instruction, on top of regular classes, to help a student learn English and perform well in a regular classroom.
Some of the nation’s largest districts, according to the Education Trust, used pandemic relief money to hire bilingual staff. As federal aid money begins to run out and schools prepare for post-pandemic budget cuts, experts and advocates warn against reducing support for EL programs and other interventions.
“Our overreliance on federal funds and temporary funds potentially demonstrates that we’re not doing enough as a state already,” said Carlos Alemán, director of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama. “As we see those dollars wind down, then the state should really reflect and review what it can do to make sure that these programs can remain in place.”
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It’s the Great Replacement, folks.
Why not just make all of Central America America’s 51st state?
Mars needs colonists....
;-)
Awesome
More future low wage non English speaking Demonrat voters
That is quite a burden on a community.
Off topic question: Is there any way for Congress to re-claim the massive amount of Covid un-spent money they foolishly gave to states, schools and more, for the taxpayer?????
Well, they are here and they ain’t going back, so I would hazard a guess that making sure they speak the predominate language is the right step to making these kids productive citizens in the future.
The idea is to make sure they do not live on the dole near as long as another minority, who shall not be named.
ESL - English as Second Language in our public schools takes away 1/3 of the school day from the kids who know English. The rest of 2/3rds remaining is their ‘broke by woke’ grooming.
That way, if they do eventually become citizens, they will vote for Conservative candidates.
If "immigrants" were overwhelmingly supporting Republicans, the Dems would close the border tomorrow, NQA.
Case in point: Cuban immigrants in Florida.
Hispanics are getting fed up with Dems, so their massive immigration program may someday backfire on them.
How about we cut of the welfare and deport them?
It is disgusting the Biden has placed this kind of burden on American taxpayers.
English is required for assimilation.
That Jenga game sounds fun.
People use to laugh and giggle about CA being overrun with legals, foreign nationals etc..Now it's in their backyards and all the giggling and jokes have gone silent.
The only thing they should be reading is their bus ticket back to their s hole next to their mommy.
“Some of the nation’s largest districts, according to the Education Trust, used pandemic relief money to hire bilingual staff.”
So they defrauded the taxpayers, and now they’re begging for us to continue funding their fraudulently-funded programs.
“It’s the Great Replacement, folks.”
Exactly. Like when you’ve been told you’ll be dismissed from your job in a month, and then are forced to train your replacement if you want any severance pay.
Probably not. Once is is out, it is not coming back. The peopleare determined to commit suicide. And the “leaders” know how to play them.
Yep. And the people are too stupid to realize it.
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