While, it is helpful to employ somone who speaks Spanish, so they can communicate, I have two questions, that seem very obvious to me.

1. Why can't we take the money and energy we spend accommodating those who have decided not to learn English (have you noticed how other cultures have managed to come to the US and learn fluent English in a matter of months or a year?)and spend that same money teaching our Spanish speaking students (and perhaps their families) English???

2. In school where the Hispanic population is high, the assumption is that there is no one in the building who can communicate with our Spanish-speaking families. That is very far from the truth. In every DISD school I have been in there are Spanish speaking teachers, aids, custodians, counselors, assistant principals, librarians, and in some instances principals. So the obvious question is why must we now REQUIRE the head principal be Spanish speaking in addition to everyone else?

It just seems like the solutions they have come up with are more expensive, more divisive, and in the end do not solve the problem.