Six-year-old Kinney Lau lived in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood. Everything he and his parents needed, grocery stores, churches, local businesses, and doctors' offices provided their services in Chinese, but when Kinney entered Elementary School he found that he spoke no English and his teacher spoke no Chinese. How would he ever follow along? Kinney Lau's parents filed a lawsuit on behalf of their son and hundreds of other students in similar situations in the San Francisco school system. They wanted the schools to ...
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Six-year-old Kinney Lau lived in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood. Everything he and his parents needed, grocery stores, churches, local businesses, and doctors' offices provided their services in Chinese, but when Kinney entered Elementary School he found that he spoke no English and his teacher spoke no Chinese. How would he ever follow along? Kinney Lau's parents filed a lawsuit on behalf of their son and hundreds of other students in similar situations in the San Francisco school system. They wanted the schools to provide some means for these children to learn . In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court agreed with the Lau family. In San Francisco the bilingual (two-language) approach to learning was implemented. In other places, schools were required to find and implement the best approach for teaching non-English-speaking students.
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