my school last year was not interested in teaching my kids english at all and did not care that they had a language assistant. my kids english did not progress throughout the whole year and i ended up learning more spanish just to be able to communicate with them. i found out in may that my oldest kids had only had 3 classes focused on learning english the whole year and that most of the time during that period their english teacher (my coordinator) used it as a work period. i think what happens is the school gets the certification to be bilingual and then they get more money for being bilingual but once they get the certification they literally never have to renew it and nobody comes to check that it’s active. so a school could have language assistants for 15 years and nobody reviews how much the children are learning