New generation of immigrants call Biddeford home

These kids learn English, thanks to teachers like this, but it is a struggle for the school district and their parents need help too.     - - Donna Poisl

By Kate Irish Collins

BIDDEFORD – Patty Shaw doesn’t speak Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese or Spanish, but she doesn’t have to. It’s her job to teach students from these places to read, write and speak English as proficiently as possible in as short a time as possible.

Shaw is a part-time English Language Learner, or ELL, teacher at Biddeford Primary School and her students come from all over the globe. She currently has students from Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador, China, Iraq and the Philippines.
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