The problem with little white girls (and boys)

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23. Ever listen to a Spanish class in school?

Not so much learning. Mostly avoidance. From 8th grade up.

Even the bilingual 5th grade class I observed for a while was pretty pointless. There was a distinct bias. The Spanish-speakers were favored by the Spanish-language teacher and coached in a lot of ways. The native English-speakers found the Spanish to be a joke, and the Spanish-language teacher was not favorable to them.

Hard to spot if you didn't speak both languages. The English-language teacher knew no Spanish.

And I could only pity the kids in the bilingual Spanish/English class just because that was the one that the district had designed the "ESL" class. It's the fatal flaw in Lau-mandated ESL instruction in the US for years, one that politically adept groups love and others less numerous are powerless to even complain about. These few kids weren't Spanish speaking and were recent arrivals. Ever see a kid in the US for a month try to sort out English when half his school day is in Spanish? Good for Latino immigrants. Horrendous for Vietnamese, Thai, Russian immigrants.