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My wife is an ELL teacher in Beaverton and has been in Wisconsin and Minnesota for the past 16+ years. She has never allowed Spanish to be spoken in her classroom. First because it is the policy of all of the districts she has taught in to teach english and to do so in a english immersion environment. Second because Spanish is not the only native language of her students. She teaches students from most of the former Russian Republics, African Countries and a number of other areas around the world. There may be some bilingual environments that teach in multiple languages but that is not the focus of ELL programs.

I have noticed that Mr. Hickey keeps mentioning Spanish as the language that is being spoken in the classroom is this an attempt to tie the teaching of english to legal immigrants to America to the "illegal immigration" problem and those darn illegal immigrants.

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