Dude, your posts are more coherent and filled with worthy points than many that I've read. I hope that you continue to do so. I'll check out the educational challenges in Spotsylvania County but I won't be laughing, I can assure you. More than likely a low grade rage will be my response.
It's not all bad, at least there is some money in our schools. Most of the teachers have been wonderful. While it is quite red in all the wrong ways near me, development is creating a chang in overall demographic. We have great parks. Lots of extracurricular opportunity. We just (or are about to) fire(d) our wackado school supervisor. I really felt as though my county was a microcosm of the trump political climate, and some return to normalcy is happening/on the horizon. But now I feel I have hijacked this tread and taken it well off it's intended subject. So I will just get to the end point that more national and state educational funding and oversight should be a voting concern for most Americans.
This is being driven by Trump's deal with Putin regarding Ukraine. Nothing will get done for either border security or Ukraine until next year and maybe not even then. Trump and his GOP MAGA have every incentive to block aid for both and they will do that regardless of political blowback.
The Dems are so going to clean up in November.
Considering that the way they completely bungled the border issue, one that they held as a Trump card against anything Democrats did well, such as the economy and employment, I agree. Intentional or not, these guys act as if they want to lose in November.The Dems are so going to clean up in November.
I foresee that they rule the house and senate and go at least two more terms unless they pick a real looser to replace Joe after his 2nd is over.
Biden is probably the best President for the People since JFK and all but the truly stupid magats will come to see that before the repubs ever have another chance. How much of their base did they just lose over this Taylor Swift craziness alone I wonder. Only the hardcore will be left by Nov as they are pissing off so many facets of society and that's maybe 30% of available voters.
Sure a lot of dems think Biden is too old but with his experience he has the respect of most world leaders and really knows how to get along with everybody. With the mess the world is in I can't think of anyone else who could do that job half as well.
The future's so bright we're gonna need shades! Aviators of course.
I have a small, but not great, vested interest in this because I was raised in a Canadian DND environment, so French as a 2nd language was a part of the curriculum from grade one. What I'm curious about is the video in the first link where it sounded like all students will be taking both English and Spanish. Is this true, or will it be some type of extra course that a student or the student's parents can request to take if they want to?i smell bullshit as a school age parent ......
^^ only ONE bilingual school in OKC opened in 2022
César Chávez Elementary / Homepage
www.okcps.org
This is no different than canada having french as second language your child wasn't taught exclusively Spanish it was introduced as a second language,
almost every country has a second language skill taught to kids
i had spanish as an elective when i went to school, figure it was a good idea being in Texas and all....still use a little bit of it today as well
The first link was about Western Gateway Elementary, a charter school that a student would opt-in and be accepted in order to attend. There is nothing about concurrent Spanish/English in the Cesar Chavez Elementary School's website although they probably do have some sort of bilingual education services available. But I'm speculating because I could find nothing specific about bilingual education at that school, either in the news or in their website.
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Same here. Spanish was taught one hour a week in sixth grade and completing two years of education in a second language was a requirement of a High School diploma. Spanish was the elective I chose. I'm not bilingual by any means but what little that stuck is helpful to me.
mine started in HS, first 2 yrs we had to complete the main core, the next 2 yr, you main core was early in the morning but you had to fill 2 slots for an elective. Choices were French, German, Spanish. Figured living in the texas and the city i'm in Spanish was a good fit. Helped me a lot with my trips to mexico back in the day, cause if you didn't speak spanish, you were a mark basically. I still speak a little today, but not as much. Comes in handy in a lot of ways.
It was not offered at my East Coast school. However here in the Southwest I have picked up some basics — not enough to effectively eavesdrop on native speakers, but enough to winkle out the billboards that come my way.
Yeah. We also had French and Spanish electives in HS. In Junior High, the school I went to also had Italian as a main curriculum course for those who wanted it. It was setup that way, I believe, because the neighborhood had a very high Italian population. But those were separate schools (Catholic as opposed to public here).
Thanks. I did check that Chavez site briefly but didn't see anything suggesting a bi-lingual curriculum neither. They did have a course aimed at English for Spanish speaking kids. Not sure if that is reciprocated somewhere else in their curriculum though. I'm finding the ways your country and States runs things pretty fascinating, good or bad.
