JOwl
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OT - Arabic Immersion Magnet School in Houston
I learned one cool thing and one absurd thing from this Chron article: http://www.chron.com/news/education/arti...item-38488
Cool thing: There's a brand new Arabic Immersion magnet school that just opened in the Heights. That's pretty exciting. I tried Arabic at Rice but dropped it because I wasn't getting anywhere. If I had kids, I would totally want to put them in a language immersion school, because fluency in another language is like a superpower to me (through years of continuous effort I can get by in French, but not very well), and my understanding is that it comes extremely easily if you're exposed young enough.
Absurd thing: On the first day of school, "almost 30 adults spread along the fenced perimeter of the Heights-area school, waving American and Israeli flags while touting protest signs". Seriously. The signs included such rock-solid arguments as "everything I cared to know about Islam was taught to me by Muslims on 9/11/2001", and "Qatar out of our schools" (which I guess is a pun)?
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08-24-2015 09:27 PM |
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