Sheikh Mahandi
Posts: 47
Joined: May 2005
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Personal experience - I went to a primary school (Brmingham / West Midlands / UK) equivalent to U.S elementary - 98% of class was split between West Indian (Caribbean) Indian (sub-continent) and Pakistani, many of the Indian and Pakistani children had Punjabi, or Hindi, or Tamil, etc. as first language but all had to learn English - because of the school board you ask - no, because all state examinations (O / A Levels) were in English except single exams such as Punjabi for native speakers, so anyone planning to study Chemistry, History, Physics, Biology, etc had to understand English.
Applying this to your last post, yes local school boards could perhaps undertake to have the curriculum in mainly Spanish, but if the State Examination or SAT's, etc. remain in English then they are at an immediate disadvantage, so it is counter-productive, my guess is, maybe one or two might experiment with it for a few years, but will soon revert to having "English" as the main language.
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