Plain speaking
Re “Big plans at the escuela,” Sept. 4
I think it’s wonderful that children learn multiple languages. In fact, my children speak three languages.
However, I disagree with Aldama Elementary School’s experiment with dual languages. There are so many children in L.A .Unified who barely speak English as it is. I fail to see how a dual-language program will improve their English.
Yolie Flores Aguilar, a school board member, claims that this is to prepare our children for a global economy. She must be joking. If she really wants to prepare them for the future, they should be learning Chinese, not Spanish, as a second language.
Raymond Tam
Temple City
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