More little kids learning languages and becoming fluent so young! I envy them, am so happy to know that this country is going to have many bilingual people in the future. - - Donna Poisl
By Steve Visser, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Each day of the school year, Thaddeus Hood and his fellow second-graders said the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.
They were among the 300 students at Unidos Dual Language Charter School in Forest Park, which teaches at least half its classes in the Spanish language with the goal of making native English and native Spanish speakers bilingual by the time they reach middle school.
“He is not fluent yet, but I am confident he is on his way because he is speaking, reading and writing Spanish at his grade level,” said Thaddeus’ mother, Yolanda Hood. “He is doing well in English language arts as well. He scored either at his level or above his level on the standardized tests.”
Hood also has enrolled her 5-year-old daughter Kennedy in the Clayton County school’s pre-kindergarten program for the coming year so she can learn Spanish. Hood bought Rosetta Stone, the language-teaching software, to keep up with her children.
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