Reply #10: Mixed Feelings about this

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Everyone here is assuming these kids are immigrents. Or their parents are immigrents.

Where i live, hispanic parents don't always teach their kids english. I'm talking about parents who are BORN here. Parents who speak perfect english. Parents that went to school here. It's so comment that when a hispanic child is seen, people automaticly speak to the child in spanish. It's assumed the child can't speak english.

Such a child has no business starting school not knowing how to speak and understand english.

But we don't ask on forms if the child or parents are immigrants. We ask what is the primary language. And if english is spoken in the home.

The problem with this is that creates an extra burden on a system that can't really handle it and is all ready over burdened. Our tax dollars should not be spent teach a child english, when his family has been here for several generations.

Part of parenting is to prepare your child to relate with the outside world. Teaching the commen language that the child lives in is part of that. IF the Parents can all ready speak it.