Published On: June 17th, 2017|

The Sequim Gazette – John Burbank

“For example, Washington is an important part of the global economy, but our schooling tends to separate us from the global market by assuming our children and grandchildren will be monolingual, speaking only English. That might have been true 50 years ago, but it isn’t now. It not even true within our state, much less in the global community. Bilingual kids have a huge advantage in the world community and economy. Reykdal proposes adding dual language acquisition starting as early as kindergarten.”(more)