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September 8, 2020
Tony Morgan
Mill Valley
I was delighted to see the ICA Cristo Rey Academy ad in the most recent edition (Aug. 20). A very fine school, indeed.
As a father whose daughter is a native speaker and received her degree from The Catholic University of Argentina, I recall the frustration and finally the failure in locating a good bilingual school in the SF Bay area, whether public or private. In the public schools, some 15 years ago, from the websites to the blackboards, there was too much Spanglish and too many grammatical mistakes. And Catholic bilingual schools did not exist, nor do they today. We finally settled on home tutoring and summer trips to Argentina to bring my daughter to fluency.
Since we are all aware that Spanish is the language of the future and the future has arrived, can we not have one Catholic school in the archdiocese offer a bilingual program? Instead of leasing out our schools to secular institutions, why not make some of them bilingual? I know that there are some native Spanish teachers who are tired of the constant indoctrination in the public and private schools who would love to make the switch. And I am quite certain, that there are many Latin American nuns who would be thrilled to teach in Spanish in the San Francisco area.
The demand is particularly strong from non-Hispanic parents who will pay top dollar for such a school, just as the English Canadians parents do with French in Quebec, Canada.
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