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Parents, teachers urge Redwood City School Board to avoid combination classrooms in Mandarin immersion program
Summary
Multiple parents, teachers and a Clifford Elementary staff petitioned the board during public comment to abandon plans for combined-grade third/fourth classrooms at Orion, citing threats to instructional quality for multilingual learners, students with IEPs and program fidelity for the Mandarin immersion pipeline.
Multiple parents, teachers and students urged the Redwood City School Board on April 22 to abandon a district proposal to create combined-grade classrooms in the Mandarin immersion pipeline, arguing the change would dilute instruction and harm students who need targeted services.
Lisonbee Rhodes, representing Clifford Elementary teachers and special-education staff, delivered a petition and summarized classroom-level harms: "Teachers will be effectively planning…
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