This was a great school many years ago when the objective was to help English speaking students become bi-lingual. One of the early immersion programs in the country, Adams has turned into another social experiment, chasing Title I money and delivering mediocre education at best.Whether adding native Spanish speaking students was to "offer all services to all communities" or to continue to get Title I money, it seriously damages the educational advantages for both native English and native Spanish students alike.In the younger grades, you will find the native Spanish speakers bored and acting out because things are too easy. So, while the native English speakers struggle and build the prefrontal cortex pipeline, the native Spanish speakers fall behind in learning how to learn. By the 3rd or 4th grade, the native English speakers are now reaching their stride and the native Spanish speakers are falling behind because of a lack of learning skills. Misbehavior comes back in a population you rarely see misbehavior in. While this is not a hard school to teach in, it is not the fun school, with highly motivated students, it once was.
