Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 2/2/2007 7:45:00 PM Author: Cindy (Sunshyne318@aol.com) Subject: language barrier This maybe America and English is the language. I am an American to and agree in a since but you are wrong in trying to put your opion on somebody else. It does not work. I have been in the education business over 27 years and cultures in school are changing towards other foreign people coming to our country. I work in a daycare that is suppose to be diverse and is mostly Chinese or Asian children with bilingual teachers who speak Chinese and have had to ajust to this. I have to follow minium standards and some parents prefer to have their children taught by Chinese teachers at first because they speak their language and some want their child taught English and most parents do not speak English at home or very little. Check out other cultures and learn some of the languages or get out of the profession it is what you call descrimination. It sounds like you are becoming the minority now and do not like it. I have been working as this daycare almost 5 years and have learned a couple of common Chinese words and sometimes have to ask my co-workers to translate what the child is saying or ask them questions in the childs language and they to have different dialects like we do and come from different parts of China. Name: Email: Subject

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