On Saturday morning, April 13th, members of the Hartford community congregated together at the Learning Corridor to listen to various Connecticut educators discuss the merits of creating a dual-language magnet school in Hartford.\u00a0 At the beginning of the discussion, Trinity College Professor Andrea Dyrness shared a story with community members that illustrated the negative perception that exists within mainstream American culture concerning bilingual education in schools.\u00a0 She said that when her daughter enrolled in the Hartford school district, educators were immediately alarmed upon finding out that both English and Spanish were spoken in the Dyrness household.\u00a0 The school district asked, \u201cWill you daughter need special attention?\u201d While Professor Dyrness thought that the bilingual education her daughter had received at home would be viewed as a strength in the eyes of Hartford educators, it instead, was viewed as a weakness.\u00a0 But how could this be?\u00a0 It is this very question that has driven Professor Dyrness and other local educators to push for the creation of dual-language magnet school in Hartford, a school where bilingualism would be openly celebrated, not flat-out disregarded.\u00a0 \u00a0Under the conditions of a dual-language school, native English and Spanish speakers would be integrated into an educational program where at least fifty percent of the curriculum would be covered in Spanish. \u00a0Presenters stressed that the positive effects\u00a0of a\u00a0dual-language system can generally\u00a0be identified once a Kindergarten class makes its way up to Fifth grade, so a commitment to the long term is imperative.\u00a0 \u00a0Not only would students benefit from learning multiple languages and developing an appreciation for differing cultures, but studies have shown that it would also prepare students better for the\u00a0jobs that lie ahead in our interconnected world. \u00a0\u00a0The presenters and advocates for a bilingual magnet school in Hartford concluded their discussion by challenging the community members in attendance to garner as much support from other citizens as possible, which would put deliberate pressure on the Hartford Board of Education to vote in favor of a dual-language magnet school.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
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