Word: vega
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brian Yates points to the dark sky, hardly able to contain himself as he recites the names of the stars and the planets. Over there is Andromeda, the chained lady. There's Pegasus, the winged horse--and the Northern Cross, Vega and Jupiter! "Get over it, Yates," yells one of the students who, for 50 extra-credit points, have come to the playground to watch the moon rise. "Never," replies Yates...
...addition, Vega does not see the Bilingual Program as a permanent home for most students. "The purpose of the bilingual program is the transition to the standard curriculum," she says...
...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...
...both Clayton and Vega, the issue is clear-cut. A majority of the kids in the program face "skill-barriers" as well as language barriers. The idea of the program to help them gain skills that are transferable. "How are you ever going to get a kid to read Shakespeare if he can't read Cervantes," asks Clayton. "The overwhelming majority [of the Spanish-speaking students] can't write a coherent well-punctuated sentence in Spanish...
...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...