Los Amigos Bilingual Program
Valorie has discussed the benefits of teaching a second language to your children. As she stated in previous blogs, the earlier a child begins to learn a second language the easier it is. In most cases, public schools do not begin to teach languages other than English until high school. Knowing the importance and advantage to being bilingual, one school district decided to act upon it. In 1998 Palmdale School District in Los Angeles began a program that taught students in English for half of the time and in Spanish the other half of the time. School officials began visiting … Continue reading