I can tell the Members from personal experience the difficulty of being placed in a mainstream program without knowledge of the language. When I arrived in New York from Puerto Rico. I arrived as a migrant. not as an immigrant. speaking Spanish only. I recall how difficult it was for myself and for that group of youngsters who were in that classroom. because we had the language problem. one. we were not allowed to participate in any regular classroom work. so it was something like the fifth grade before most of us knew who George Washington was and what he had accomplished. when in fact we could have been told in Spanish who Jorge Washington was in the second grade and what he had accomplished. Also.
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