We could go on forever about bilingual education and DISD will never get it right about how to teach children from ANY country.

In DISD we think bilingual is just Spanish....well you are wrong. There are children from all over the world enrolled in DISD and the district doesn't accommodate them.

My problem is the bilingual teacher. They go to Spain, Puerto Rico, Mexico, etc to hire bilingual teachers.

However, the problem is THE TEACHER DOESN'T SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH!

Have you ever sat in a training with someone who is suppose to teach these kids English and he or she can't say the word "pony"? That's crazy! They make $3000 more than I do and they don't want to teach English!!!!!

Right now at my school we have a fourth grade writing teacher who can't WRITE ENGLISH. Now tell me how is she going to get these kids to write for the TAKS when she can't either???

[Ed Note: Reminds me of a somewhat humorous story told by a student in a "bilingual" education class. They ended up a with a new math teacher, a layoff from Dell Computer, who was having a hard time with English.

It will be interesting to see what happens to some of the "bilingual" students when they hit junior high (and high school) with limited English skills.]