These students couldn’t speak English when they arrived in Jacksonville. A growing school program is changing that

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These students couldn’t speak English when they arrived in Jacksonville. A growing school program is changing that

Mansur Mahmoud and his younger brother cried on their first day of school at IDEA River Bluff in Arlington.But they didn’t cry because they missed their family or precious toys. They cried because they could not understand or speak a word of English.That’s not the case anymore.“My name is Mansur,” the second-grader said to me in English. “I am from Afghanistan.”Mansur and his family moved from Afghanistan to Jacksonville approximately six months…