Madison schools have the chance to be bold in helping Spanish-speaking students

For most people, including me and probably much of the education establishment, this child's future would not appear particularly bright.

But for those willing to peek through the other end of the looking glass, he's ripe for a talented and gifted program that values advanced, often in-born academic gifts, but might do a better job respecting the advanced, real-world skills of its poorer, less-stereotypically successful students.

Elias is bilingual, after all, which by itself would go a long way toward qualifying him for jobs the rest of us English-only Americans could never hope to get in our rapidly diversifying society: urban newspaper reporter, Spanish-language television executive, United Nations translator.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 14, 2010 2:04 AM
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