What jumped out at me the most in this chapter is the statistic of “one in every six adolescents going to school in the United States comes from a family in which English is not the main language.” That seems so bizarre and inaccurate because at Mt. Blue there are maybe six students in the whole school who would fall into that statistic. I know down in Portland the high schools are very diverse with many different languages, and that is something you just don’t see up here in Franklin County. I suppose in certain parts of California and big cities throughout the United States there are many students who are learning English as a second language, so that therefore makes up for the gap of diversity we have here in Maine.
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