School districts know that if the parents speak and read English, the children will do much better in school. So they are teaching the parents too. - - Donna Poisl
By KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH / The Dallas Morning News
More than two decades after leaving Mexico, Maria Valdez was working long hours most nights as a cook and still didn't speak English. So last year Valdez, a single mother, signed up for English classes offered for free through the Irving school district. Her 10-year-old son often helps her. "I want him to be proud of me," she said. "I don't want to depend on anyone. I need English."
As the number of children of immigrants attending Texas schools increases, school districts are increasingly taking up the role of educating their parents.
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