Many of California's Latino students, who make up by far the biggest share of children in bilingual classes, leave school unable to read or write English.

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The result, notes Mr Hyman ruefully, is that children are starting to learn (or, more accurately, to attend lessons in) Spanish, when they cannot even read or write English.

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The boy is able to read and write and spoke mainly in English with a few words in German, authorities said.

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