I sincerely hope that this young fellow is doing fine wherever he is. Did you ask him if he would like to go to a school that taught academic subjects in a language he was fluent in while at the same time teaching him English in an atmosphere that respected him and his native culture? Did you ask his parents?
Why Spanish? A large population of students in need, a pool of talented people to implement the program, and a lot of support in the city. I'm sorry you don't support the idea; I would think that all of you "good government" advocates would rally around something so successful.
Why not Chinese? Was that Mandarin, Cantonese or one of the others that you meant? Indian? Do you mean Asian or American? (Yes most natives in the Americas call themselves Indian, or Indio, when not referring to their particular group.) Of these which of the several hundred languages do you mean? These and all the others you suggest? Is it practical, is there a large enough population of each here in Cambridge to be able to do that? Maybe you could take on the project.
As for having a say in how your money is spent on education maybe you should run your own candidate for School Committee. Oh, right, you ran Fred Baker in 2001. He didn't do too well. He came in ninth out of ten in number one votes after the recount (328). Marla Erlien, an outspoken Amigos advocate who came in eighth, got over three and a half times that number (1188). I hope you voted.
Thank you for the spelling correction. I will try to learn from my mistake. I never had any bilingual instruction in my public school education. If I had then maybe I would have saved myself the embarrassment of having my seven year old be my interpreter on a trip to Peru a few years ago. She did really well, though, thanks to the public school education she was getting at Amigos. I think that she and her classmates are being given far more opportunity than I ever was.
My Dear Ms. Mackiewicz,
I sincerely hope that this young fellow is doing fine wherever he is. Did you ask him if he would like to go to a school that taught academic subjects in a language he was fluent in while at the same time teaching him English in an atmosphere that respected him and his native culture? Did you ask his parents?
Why Spanish? A large population of students in need, a pool of talented people to implement the program, and a lot of support in the city. I'm sorry you don't support the idea; I would think that all of you "good government" advocates would rally around something so successful.
Why not Chinese? Was that Mandarin, Cantonese or one of the others that you meant? Indian? Do you mean Asian or American? (Yes most natives in the Americas call themselves Indian, or Indio, when not referring to their particular group.) Of these which of the several hundred languages do you mean? These and all the others you suggest? Is it practical, is there a large enough population of each here in Cambridge to be able to do that? Maybe you could take on the project.
As for having a say in how your money is spent on education maybe you should run your own candidate for School Committee. Oh, right, you ran Fred Baker in 2001. He didn't do too well. He came in ninth out of ten in number one votes after the recount (328). Marla Erlien, an outspoken Amigos advocate who came in eighth, got over three and a half times that number (1188). I hope you voted.
Thank you for the spelling correction. I will try to learn from my mistake. I never had any bilingual instruction in my public school education. If I had then maybe I would have saved myself the embarrassment of having my seven year old be my interpreter on a trip to Peru a few years ago. She did really well, though, thanks to the public school education she was getting at Amigos. I think that she and her classmates are being given far more opportunity than I ever was.