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Second Language plus Child Equals Smarter Child |
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By Beth Butler
 Many of you reading this already are on to the fact that being bilingual is no longer an option, it is a necessity. As a mom of three children, all of whom are bilingual to varying degrees, and as an educator of thousands of young children over the past twenty years, I have watched first hand the growing demand from our society to prepare our young children for a global economy.
No longer is it enough to give them a few colors and shapes in preschool, hope that their elementary school might incorporate a few days of the week spoken in two languages here or months there, and then trust that, come middle school, they will eagerly and easily catch on to second language learning.
We know that is not how it works. We have all witnessed the lack of enthusiasm for middle school Spanish class from most teenagers in our lives. The groans from those high school kids who must finish their second year of a foreign language in order to get accepted to any college are |
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