Guest column: Dual-language for a brighter future in Brunswi

Guest column: Dual-language for a brighter future in Brunswick


Guest column: Dual-language for a brighter future in Brunswick
By Emily PanGuest column
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When the COVID-19 pandemic sent Brunswick teachers, parents and students scrambling to navigate a new world of virtual learning, many school district plans were understandably put on hold. One of these initiatives is the implementation of a dual-language program at Kate Furbish Elementary School. Now more than ever, we must come together as a community to support second language instruction in Brunswick.
The program would allow students to learn academic content in French or Spanish starting in kindergarten, as described by Kate Furbish teacher and dual-language committee chair Alexandra Fish to the Portland Press Herald in 2018: “Students would begin instruction taught 90%in the second language and 10 percent in English. Each year until fifth grade, the second language component would decrease by 10% until there was a 60/40 split, Fish said. By the time the students are entering junior high, they could take classes in their second language or begin to learn a third. Upon graduation, students could have a foreign language studies diploma and a seal of bi-literacy.”

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