Lived in East TX when my youngest was entering preschool. I was stunned when I found one & was told they're only Spanish!! Like huh? He needed speech therapy for English back then (thank u baby vaccinations) so uh that wasn't gonna work!
I was actually looking for a good comment like this before I posted a reply. A foreign-staffed or foreign-speaking preschool is ABSOLUTELY not the place to put an English-speaking child if you don't want to end up putting your child in speech therapy. Once they are a little older then having them learn another language or 5 is great, but at a preschool age they are still developing their mouth movements on English sounds, and settling into their local accents and dialects.
Kids of course can learn multiple languages at early ages, but they could very well end up with a hint of a spanish accent when speaking English. If all of your family is Hispanic that may not be too bad, but most English-speaking people wouldn't want that.
We looked at preschools in Central TX when my youngest daughter was old enough. Almost all of them were staffed by spanish-speaking people. She was already in speech therapy at the time, and her therapist highly recommended we did not put her in that environment until much later because of her speech issues.
One other thing nobody thinks about is culture. If the staff and kids are all spanish then their cultures will likely be different than an English-speaking child's.
Lived in East TX when my youngest was entering preschool. I was stunned when I found one & was told they're only Spanish!! Like huh? He needed speech therapy for English back then (thank u baby vaccinations) so uh that wasn't gonna work!
I was actually looking for a good comment like this before I posted a reply. A foreign-staffed or foreign-speaking preschool is ABSOLUTELY not the place to put an English-speaking child if you don't want to end up putting your child in speech therapy. Once they are a little older then having them learn another language or 5 is great, but at a preschool age they are still developing their mouth movements on English sounds, and settling into their local accents and dialects.
Kids of course can learn multiple languages at early ages, but they could very well end up with a hint of a spanish accent when speaking English. If all of your family is Hispanic that may not be too bad, but most English-speaking people wouldn't want that.
We looked at preschools in Central TX when my youngest daughter was old enough. Almost all of them were staffed by spanish-speaking people. She was already in speech therapy at the time, and her therapist highly recommended we did not put her in that environment until much later because of her speech issues.
One other thing nobody thinks about is culture. If the staff and kids are all spanish then their cultures will likely be different than an English-speaking child's.