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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face. Students congregate at the bus stops on Broadway and Cambridge St., on the steps of the Cambridge Public Library and, most of all, under the overpass--a second story passage that connects one of the school's concrete buildings to the other. A Korean-speaking contingent sits apart from the chaos, over on the east side of the buildings; the studious head home straight away; the punks take over the bench by the school's orange front doors. Except...
With a staff of only 18, the CRLS bilingual program, training students in a second language by immersing the language study into their general program, might be weakened by the division of Rindge and Latin into five autonomous schools. The sense of community and family essential to the program would be lost with bilingual students and teachers spread across multiple schools...
...Bilingual Program has three main components: English as Second Language (ESL), which is taken for at least two periods a day, content area courses (mathematics, science, and social studies) taught in ESL and content courses taught in the native language. But even in these native language courses, adds Elsie Vega, a teacher supervising the bilingual program, "I forget Spanish around January...
...order to explain this more personal connection, Vega points to the culture of respect for adults found in Hispanic families. "Teachers are considered second parents," she says. "When parents meet with me, they say, and the kid is right there: you have the authority to do my job." "I yell and I scream and I hug and I kiss," explains Filomena Silva, assistant house administrator of The Academy...
...also see the program as primary prevention for a second pregnancy. Most of our students don't have a second child," she adds...