I agree. It had to be done and I suspect it will continue in other areas as well. I’d hate to be a student with an inundation of non-English speaking classmates. Neither is going to learn very much in an environment like that.
Agreed. The majority of failing public schools are in poor areas of the country. I still don’t see how vouchers help them when access to better private schools either don’t exist or if they do… have limit acceptance rates (aka they reject students).
Class size isn’t the only key to success in the classroom. I just used it as an example. When I visited a 3 private schools a few years ago… they ALL advertised their student to teacher ratio. What they didn’t advertise is low prices (25-50k per year)
In CA… there are specific ESL classes for them. However for the most part… the majority of immigrant kids where born here and thus have a decent grasp on the English language.