Posted on 12/29/2017 10:08:46 AM PST by Architect of Avalon
Stephanie Lugardos second-grade classroom at Academia Antonia Alonso in Wilmington, Delaware, is bubbling. Smiles break out on an array of faces, and the chatter spills out in English and Spanish.
This is an incarnation of a new American pluralism, one of the latest iterations of Walt Whitmans teeming nation of nations flowering in their curiosity and welcome of novelty. Downstairs, in a kindergarten class, an African American student exclaims to her friend, I know how to say that in Spanish!
José Aviles, the head of Academia Antonia Alonso, describes the school as a sort of multicultural nirvana. We tell parents, Your kid is going to be surrounded by Latino kids, white kids, African American kidswe offer everyone the same education, the same quality, the same love, he told me.
Academia Antonia Alonso, which opened as a public charter school in 2014, was designed to meet the needs of a linguistically diverse population. School leaders took full advantage of the flexibility allowed to charters to launch whats known as a dual-immersion program: Children learn in both English and Spanish and, ideally, become fully bilingual in the process. The students switch languages each school dayif a class runs in English on Tuesday, it switches to Spanish on Wednesday. (With some exceptions: For example, all the schools capoeira classes are usually in Spanishwith a smattering of Portuguese.) The program also balances the linguistic makeup of each class of students through its enrollment process. About a third of the schools children are formally recognized as English learners (ELs), students who are still developing basic proficiency in that language. Nearly two-thirds of the schools students are Latino, while around half of those enrolled are native Spanish speakers; the other half are native English speakers.
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If it had not been for white culture most of them would have no language or culture.
A point lost on most of those later arrivals from the turd world.
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