Vanessa Baxter: Boyd is learning Spanish at his new school.

Blanca: And I will say, with *that* they are doing a very good job.

Mike Baxter: Why are they teaching him Spanish in the first grade?

Vanessa Baxter: Well, honey, it's a bilingual school. The teacher says everything in English and then says it again in Spanish.

Mike Baxter: So you work twice as hard to learn half as much.

Vanessa Baxter: Or they are learning twice as much because they're learning another language.

Mike Baxter: How do they even understand 'twice as much' if there's no time for math?

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