Prompt 2

According to infoworks, 78% of the students at Lillian Feinstein elementary school are Hispanic and 33% of the school's students receive ESL or bilingual education.  The kindergarten classroom I do reading buddies in is called a sheltered english bilingual support classroom. Both the teacher and teacher's aide speak spanish, along with the majority of the students in the classroom.  I believe all the students in this classroom, spanish speaking and non-spanish speaking, benefit from being in this type of classroom.  I feel that not only does the "bilingual support" help the spanish speaking students, but the non-spanish speaking students benefit from the interactions that take place in the classroom.  They learn different sociocultural characteristics and being introduced to the spanish language in connection with what's taking place around them, benefits these students greatly.  Living in such a diverse society, students in this classroom are already starting to develope the cultural capital required to succeed in our society.