I understand expecting a politician to be a liar and/or not being able to follow through with some promises. Experience tells us this is logical. But why vote for him? Because he wasn’t Kamala? Seems to be the case.

Thanks! I just put it in my cart.

Especially in schools! We encourage the use of English for all academic purposes, as if community and world languages are not useful for learning outside of a language class.

Upholding long-existing educational policy around language and framing it as academic support or rigor does harm to children & should be a thing of the past by now. Celebrating xx history month does not mean cultures are celebrated when languages are excluded.

Yuca, papas, chiles, tomate, etc.

Starting a unit on alimentos originarios de las americas as part of a broader unit on the connection between food and culture & el intercambio colombino.

But when a high school student reads English at a 3rd grade level no one lets them off the hook. No one thinks that learning their heritage or native language might help and this is so counter intuitive and just ethically wrong.

The fact that some students feel ashamed that they don’t know a heritage language other than English to the degree they think they should is the result of racist language practices in and out of schools. Kids now feel they don’t need to expand on all the languages they have.

Something that always concerned me as an ESOL teacher was that there are stark differences in school cultures here and abroad that a student has to learn to recognize and overcome while learning language and content + social/family adjustments. This is a lot for a kid.