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I truly do not understand why bilingual education in San Jose isn’t more embraced. What can be the downside? Better educated, more well-rounded, bilingual, biliterate, bicultured children? I’ll take that risk.
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March 30th, 2010
Bilingualism is Inevitable, So What’s the Problem?
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Tags: bilingual, children, compassion, dual immersion, education, kids, Politics and Rants, sahm, san jose, School, schools, spanish, spanish immersion 
No Comments »November 27th, 2009
A Good Guy for a Good Cause
As many of you know, our annual Community Tree Lighting Ceremony is Thursday, December 3 at 6:30 p.m. As more of you know, I nearly lost my skull worried over the actual *lighting* of the tree. It’s a bad economy, we all know it. But no lit tree in our town? Really, I need a [...]
November 17th, 2009
Tree is Bare, Branches are Full
The tree lighting ceremony drama –lighting up my frustration from here to Thomas Edison’s grave and back — continues. There are a million technicalities, hurdles, economic downturn-rejections and red tape landmines everywhere I turn. All of this, of course, in two languages. It’s sort of borderlining on panic.
But, there is also a fullness I’ve never [...]
November 6th, 2009
My Big Girl Reader
My incredible daughter picked up a book the other day and started reading it aloud. I pulled the car over to the side of the road and just sat there looking at La Gringa in amazement.
My girl really didn’t want to read a word of English (she reads in Spanish) until she was good and [...]
