Spanish Program Is Divisive

April 27, 1994|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

Spanish Immersion works! More than a year of the faculty, administration, and school board's time spent on a program that no educator will cite as being significant to a better education. No proof of increased skills in anything other than Spanish. Teachers of the best middle school program in the area being shuffled around, and one being transferred, so that 22 children can speak Spanish in reading class one period per day. The continuation of an unwanted program by a superintendent who wants to have Spanish Immersion on her resume so that when she moves on (as did the superintendent who started the program) she can say that she was politically correct. If you're looking for a program that divides a tight community, wastes its resources and disrupts an excellent school system, then Spanish Immersion works!



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