¿Cómo estás?: Guilford County Schools students on path to bilingualism

Hispanic female teacher in front of blackboard

GREENSBORO, N.C. — In kindergarten, you learn your ABC's, colors, and how to form sentences. 

But at Jones Elementary, they are doing all that and more in Spanish. It's all part of the Spanish Immersion program now in its 30th year.

Starting in kindergarten, kids are taught how to read, write and speak in Spanish.

"Our children take all of their state tests in English and do very very well," Principal Ron Luciano said.

Research shows it's best to start kids off young when learning a second language and full immersion is the quickest way.

"To survive in a global economy and a global world you have to be exposed to other cultures to other languages in this is the first step in that," Principal Luciano said.

The children are taught in Spanish all day long in kindergarten and first grade.

Then in second through fifth grade, English is introduced only for about an hour.

"By the time they leave here in fifth grade, they are truly bilingual and bi-literate," Principal Luciano said.

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