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SMITHFIELD - Johnston County's first dual language immersion program will start this fall with a pilot English-Spanish program at Selma Elementary School.
The Johnston County school board approved the program Thursday.
The program would start with two kindergarten classes and add grades each successive year. About 20 Spanish-speaking students and 20 English-speaking students would participate in each grade level. Students would take half of their classes in English and half in Spanish.
School board members said they hoped it would be the first step to making foreign language accessible to all students in the county in the earlier grades.
"All studies indicate when you start early, children learn faster and retain [languages] longer," said board member Kay Carroll.
SMITHFIELD - Johnston County's first dual language immersion program will start this fall with a pilot English-Spanish program at Selma Elementary School.
The program would start with two kindergarten classes and add grades each successive year. About 20 Spanish-speaking students and 20 English-speaking students would participate in each grade level. Students would take half of their classes in English and half in Spanish.
School board members said they hoped it would be the first step to making foreign language accessible to all students in the county in the earlier grades.
"All studies indicate when you start early, children learn faster and retain [languages] longer," said board member Kay Carroll.
Foregin languages? Only Spanish is being offered. Where's the Japanese, German, Latin? French anyone? Arabic or Chinese?
Anyone with half a brain knows this little language program in NC isn't about learning languages; it's about inculcating the general public with the notion that Spanish is an acceptable form public communication.
Language can unite or divide. English is being challenged as the language of the US and citizens should start taking action.
I think this is a great idea. It's easy for kids to learn a foreign language if they learn early. I grew up in a town full of French Canadians, and I had French class every day from Kindergarden to 5th grade. Plus, Spanish-speaking kids would have a chance to learn (and practice) English.
The world is getting smaller. Lots of people around the world speak 3 or 4 languages, why can't American kids learn 2?
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Foregin languages? Only Spanish is being offered. Where's the Japanese, German, Latin? French anyone? Arabic or Chinese?
Anyone with half a brain knows this little language program in NC isn't about learning languages; it's about inculcating the general public with the notion that Spanish is an acceptable form public communication.
Language can unite or divide. English is being challenged as the language of the US and citizens should start taking action.
I think this is a great idea. It's easy for kids to learn a foreign language if they learn early. I grew up in a town full of French Canadians, and I had French class every day from Kindergarden to 5th grade. Plus, Spanish-speaking kids would have a chance to learn (and practice) English.
The world is getting smaller. Lots of people around the world speak 3 or 4 languages, why can't American kids learn 2?
If American children are to learn a second language, it shouldn't be forcibly taught. Why Spanish? Why not Italian, German, French, Gaelic, or Mandrin Chinese?
I'll tell you why. Because we don't have wide open borders with countries speaking any of those languages. Neither do we have the very real possibility of Americans becoming the minority in their own country, completely taken over by the Swiss, or Ethiopians, or the Irish. Our porous borders with Mexico and the "Decider's" determination to force feed illegal immigration to American citizens whether they want it or not, is what has determined that these school children will learn Spanish, so that Americans can be assimilated instead of the other way around. This is no altruistic ideal that children should learn a second language. It's preparation for the complete and total erasure of our borders, and the end of the United States of America and her culture, as we know it.
It's difficult to comprehend this happening in America. It cannot be forced and parents should take their kids out of that school/county. The main language in the world is ENGLISH for a long time now and this is what is also spoken in AMERICA! Spanish is not the majority of America and need not be spoken. In Calif. our governor is upset that Hispanics are not assimulating as other foreigners have done for 200 years.
In L.A. where there are millions of illegals and hispanics, the schools taught/teach English to hispanics but have never ever had classes to force Americans to learn Spanish. A second language class is very limited and optional in elementary/high schools, anyway.
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What in the hell is this country DOING???!!!
I thought the post was going to say that spanish kids were being forced to learn/speak ENGLISH!!!!!!!
I was going to say HALLELUJAH!!!!!
If I had known, I wouldn't have bothered to read this thread because now my blood is boiling & I have to breathe...
NO ONE should HAVE to speak/learn spanish! EVER!!!!!
This is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Language ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!
Comprende?!
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Speak English already!
What's wrong with kids learning Spanish?
