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Would like to have written this game. My kid is completely 'in' Fortnite. Going to full-day (bilingual) school next year just to make sure he has something better to do every afternoon than playing.

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"just to make sure ..." seems extreme, compared to deleting the game or signing up for any interesting activity.

It was a small factor actually, but it was a factor. 2% of the decision weighing, perhaps.

That's great that you're sending him to a bilingual school! I wish I had the opportunity when I was a child.

my kids are in a dual language program at their elementary. Honestly, it's just ESL for the latino kids. There's hardly any emphasis on teaching English speaking kids Spanish. It's more for the non-english kids getting to have class taught in Spanish for half a day. I don't really care, my kids are thriving just fine, but it's not a dual language program it's ESL in disguise.

(I live in Dallas)

Then how are your kids passing their classes taught in Spanish, if they aren't learning any Spanish?

I think the point of highlighting the fact that this is an ESL class, meaning it is geared towards helping Spanish speaking kids learn English, is to imply that most instruction is in English but the instructors fall back on Spanish when necessary. Only one class per day was taught exclusively in Spanish. So his or her kids are getting exposure and limited instruction in Spanish, but it isn't full immersion. At least, that's how ESL worked when I was in school - I invite the above commenter to correct this is it is not correct.

That's cool but it's not what the parent poster described ("half a day of Spanish").

It's weird to say that learning Spanish is bad because Spanish speaking kids are getting too much value from learning English, like it's some sort of competition.

Does full-day mean until 5pm? Is it sports in that time or are they really in classes that late?

Not even 5pm, actually. It is interwined with sports, 'classes' like cooking, etc.

I'm not trying to be a troll, but really - how are you ok with this as a parent? Why are you allowing this?

I think this is okay. Unstructured time to play games is fine.

We don't enforce strict limits, we do limit the daily exposure but this is a bit difficult when all other friends are also in Fortniteland and nobody is available to play soccer.

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