Hispanic families pick up second language together

“U.S. Census Bureau data estimate Columbia County’s Hispanic population at nearly 3,000, but those figures do not provide specifics on Grovetown’s Hispanic population nor the number of the county’s illegal immigrants. Federal figures rank Georgia seventh on a list of states with the most undocumented foreigners.

Since Vicki Starcher, the school’s English to Speakers of Other Languages teacher, began teaching in Grovetown in 2003, her Hispanic enrollment has more than tripled. She now has 33 Spanish-speaking pupils in her ESOL class.”

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