Comments on: Children with English language barriers? Send in the French teacher…

By: rr

rr — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:44:00 +0000

Egads! Adamowski has reassigned the Bilingual Director in New London. Without leadership the till will be assaulted. This man is need of some re-education! Socorro!

By: rr

rr — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:42:00 +0000

Basicallly, Adamowski’s “dresses” up the districts. Shell game. No investment in the teachers who have stayed for whatever reason.

By: RR

RR — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:40:00 +0000

MS: There is sufficient research indicating that the best pedagogical practice to reading and content learning is in the first language. Emerging bilinguals are compromised when they don’t have access to their first language in learning and all the desires of English acquisition are delayed unnecessarily so. The persistent programming of language and cultural oppression in this day and age is demoralizing and impacts young children’s academic success. ALL children will learn English, please understand that. Please find time to read Kashden, National Association of Bilingual Education website, UCONN Neag School MA in Bilingual Curriculumn and Instruction. Gracias.

By: rr

rr — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:40:00 +0000

The Fed expectation is that a bilingual program’s critical mass (predominate native language) requirement is 20 in the district!
ESL is an inappropriate approach for acquisition for young elementary students. Please don’t feed the myth that there aren’t enough bilingual professionals in CT. The tactic is old as “divide and conquer”

By: Magister

Magister — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 12:57:00 +0000

It looks like the same M.O. For Windham HS as well. Two academies, but a reduction of curricular variety.

By: msavage

msavage — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:46:00 +0000

THAT I can certainly agree with!

By: R.L.

R.L. — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:28:00 +0000

If the programs are there, the resources should at least be used efficiently.

By: Melanie Savage

Melanie Savage — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:44:00 +0000

Just wanted to add–I think knowing where to draw the line, so to speak, is part of the problem in this country. The right is clearly perched on the edge of a cliff at the moment and is threatening to go over the edge. But what about the left? Don’t both sides have a responsibility to be reasonable–to “give” a little?

By: Melanie Savage

Melanie Savage — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:41:00 +0000

I’m torn on this one. If a family chooses to immigrate to the U.S., the parents know full well that the dominant language is English ahead of time. Why should it be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers to then foot the bill to teach the children English? Shouldn’t that be the responsibility of the parents? I think my views are pretty progressive in general, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Where do we draw the line re where it’s the individual’s responsibility to provide for themselves vs. where the responsibility falls upon the taxpayer? I’m open to persuasion.

By: R.L.

R.L. — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:19:00 +0000

The way that Adamowski split the schools in Hartford into academies makes it much more difficult to provide these, as well as special ed, services. Because the academies are so separate, they don’t have the numbers to support true billingual classes. Also, there aren’t as many bilingual staff in each academy which makes for less pooling of efforts/resources.