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We're basically losing one of our very best friends, and that is bilingual education. Those of us who believe in bilingual education knows that it works well. Because we need to have a literacy in a primary language, so that you can pick up your second language very rapidly, so there is a period when you are in mourning, so you're going to go into denial, and then you're going to go into some anger, into some frustration, then you're going to forgive the system and then you're going to begin to move on.\"        \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ester Castruita, Prinicipal, Los Angeles School District\u003cbr/\u003eThe voter-approved initiative - proposition 227 - will only affect students with limited English language skills.\u003cbr/\u003eTeachers in the second largest school district in the United States spent last week going over their new curriculum.\u003cbr/\u003eVoters appeared to respond to the idea that the state's education system was turning out students who were neither proficient in English nor fully fluent in Spanish.\u003cbr/\u003eState-wide test scores for students are down, and voters supported proposition 227 by a two-to-one margin.\u003cbr/\u003eSome educators fear the fate that awaits some of these English-as-a-second-language students.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Their home language, that rich treasure that they have, is basically not welcome in the schools any more, so that puts those recently arrived immigrants and young children at a disadvantage\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Victor Chavira, Teacher\u003cbr/\u003eThe behind-the-scenes politics surrounding this issue has been all but forgotten by the students.\u003cbr/\u003eWhile pupils immerse themselves back into the learning process, school administrators are doing what they can to keep them from failing.\u003cbr/\u003eAs a principal at her third Los Angeles district area school, Ester Castruita keeps the forms relating to the changes on her desk.\u003cbr/\u003eShe wants them available to any parent who has questions and concerns about their child's education.\u003cbr/\u003eAs well as a form explaining the changes, there are also instructions on how to get a waiver to exempt a limited English language child from English immersion classes.\u003cbr/\u003eNative Spanish-speaking parents are the most concerned about the changes.\u003cbr/\u003eMarta Ortega, the parent of two children at this school - one in English classes the other in bilingual classes - is afraid the youngest child won't progress quickly enough.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am not in agreement that they should finish the bilingual programme because I feel there are lots of children who do not understand English very well, and the programme helps them adapt and gets them used to the change in language. Maybe if they cancel the programme, the children will not be able to advance so quickly. They will learn English, but they will fall behind in other subjects such as science for example.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Marta Ortega, Parent\u003cbr/\u003eBut Alice Callahan, who campaigns on behalf of Spanish-speaking families, sees a positive aspect to the new regime.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"One of the nice things about the initiative is it creates lots of plaintiffs throughout the whole of California, and I'm sure there will be a lot of attorneys who on contingency will be happy to support those plaintiffs\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Alice Callahan, Founder Las Familias Del Pueblo\u003cbr/\u003eMore crucially, as far as the parents are concerned, it would appear that the education infrastructure is not able or fully prepared to implement the teaching methods.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the end of the day, the losers will be the children, taught by teachers as unfamiliar with the system as their pupils are with the English language.  \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"They've admitted they are not fully ready to do this, they don't have a developed curriculum, they don't have trained teachers, they don't have materials available, their own time line puts most of that occurring in 1999, and so I am sceptical about what is going to happen on August 3rd to any limited English proficient child with a teacher who may be confused about this new programme and not know how to implement it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Thomas Saenz, Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defence and Educational Fund\u003cbr/\u003eThe majority of Californian schools start their term in September, and if this school is anything to go by, there is a great deal more controversy on the way.\u003cbr/\u003e Los Angeles, California, U-S-A - 3 August 1998 and file\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, August 3\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior of Theresa Hughes Elementary School, Los Angeles area\u003cbr/\u003e2. Father kissing his children goodbye\u003cbr/\u003e3. Parents and students arriving\u003cbr/\u003e4. More arrivals, interacting with principal\u003cbr/\u003e5. Families walking down street towards school\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ester J. Castruita, Prinicipal\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot interior classroom\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid shot students in seats\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close-up student playing with pencil\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victor Chavira, Teacher\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide shot teacher teaching in classroom\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot students listening\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up student working\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan down from clock to principal at desk\u003cbr/\u003e15. Paper on principal's desk\u003cbr/\u003e16. Waiver to exempt student from English immersion classes\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Marta Ortega, Parent\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot teacher lining children up\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close-up children waiting to be put in line\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles - FILE\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close-up activist Alice Callahan with children\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alice Callahan, Founder Las Familias Del Pueblo\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide shot attorneys for ACLU and Mexican American Legal Defence and Educational Fund address media after losing court battle to block Prop. 227 implementation\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thomas A. Saenz, Attorney, Mexican American Legal Defence and Educational Fund (MALDEF)\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, August 3, 1998\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close-up child in classroom\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid shot teacher reading to class, pan to class listening\u003cbr/\u003e26. Student's point of view looking at teacher\u003cbr/\u003e27. 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