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By: AMD

AMD — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:17:52 +0000

I used to live in Austin, and I have a good friend who teaches at one of the bilingual schools and another who sends her daughter to one. The latter would like for her daughter to be trilingual (they speak just Spanish at home), but doesn’t really have the resources or the inspiration on how to go about it. Their family makes regular trips to Brazil, where their daughter is exposed to Portuguese, but the language is so similar to Spanish that the differences don’t really sink in with her. And obviously even that little bit of exposure costs thousands of dollars a year!

By: Suzanne Mateus

Suzanne Mateus — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:10:06 +0000

Hi BethO,

I know that one of the private schools in Austin does offer a form of financial assistance. It definitely would be a good idea to inquiry about that. Suerte!

By: Suzanne Mateus

Suzanne Mateus — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:09:05 +0000

I agree. Thank you Deonne. In the last couple of years there have been community efforts in Austin (after much work) to open a charter, a private, and now our public schools have dual language!

By: BethO

BethO — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:22:25 +0000

Thank you Deonne! Here in Houston I was aware of two public elementary schools with a dual-language program, both far from our house and both run on a lottery system (several dozen applicants for every space, so each year you just reapply and hope, as no wait listing is done). After reading your post, I researched this and just found out that there is a dual-language charter school in Houston, close to our neighborhood. We are definitely going to check this out!
It would be uber-cool to raise our son tri-lingual, if we could send him to an immersion school in another language (other than Spanish and English, that he’s getting at home). It does seem at least in Houston that may be the province of those who can afford private schools. But on the other hand, maybe I just haven’t dug deep enough?
I wonder if any of these private schools have scholarships. Perhaps with the goal of student diversity?
Lots of food for thought! And further research!!!

By: Deonne Knill

Deonne Knill — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:53:56 +0000

This is why we opened our charter school. We want multilingual, multicultural, global learners regardless of financial status. The public schools in our area that have dual language programs are full and waitlisted, and only open to those kids who live within that school’s attendance boundary. We opened a charter school to help fill the need and where attendance boundaries don’t mean much.

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