Mr. Jaquith, another thought. I was part of the "Lunch Buddies" program, sponsored by the Volpe Center, a few years ago. I read with a boy whose first language was Spanish and he was having a hard time, understandably, with reading English. I asked where he was from and he replied, "El Salvador, and someday I will go back home."
I doubt this 5th grader felt the need for a "bilingual education", nor did his parents.
Which begs another question. If the school is truly committed to bilingual programs, why Spanish? Why not Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Arabic, Polish, or Russian? As a Cambridge taxpayer, I'm footing the bill for a program which, pardon the pun, I had no say in.
And, by the way, that's "vicious", not "viscious". Perhaps a little more English in that "bilingual education?"
Mr. Jaquith, another thought. I was part of the "Lunch Buddies" program, sponsored by the Volpe Center, a few years ago. I read with a boy whose first language was Spanish and he was having a hard time, understandably, with reading English. I asked where he was from and he replied, "El Salvador, and someday I will go back home."
I doubt this 5th grader felt the need for a "bilingual education", nor did his parents.
Which begs another question. If the school is truly committed to bilingual programs, why Spanish? Why not Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Arabic, Polish, or Russian? As a Cambridge taxpayer, I'm footing the bill for a program which, pardon the pun, I had no say in.
And, by the way, that's "vicious", not "viscious". Perhaps a little more English in that "bilingual education?"
Marynia Mackiewicz