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Bilingual schooling obsession is gambling with children’s future

September 30, 2011 by Edward Marks 3 Comments

At the beginning of this school year, a mother commented to me that she had moved her daughter from one public school in Madrid to another in the same neighbourhood. When I asked why, she said it was because of the bilingual schools project that Esperanza Aguirre, president of Madrid's regional government, has created, which entails teaching 40-50 percent of the school curriculum in English, except mathematics and Spanish language. I was surprised to find out that in fact this mother had changed her daughter from a school that was about to enter the bilingual project to a school that had no intention of doing so. In a country that is so preoccupied with getting a grasp of the English … [Read more...] about Bilingual schooling obsession is gambling with children’s future

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