More Flexible Districts Many of California's public schools have faced confusion and difficulties implementing Proposition 227, but unlike Oceanside, some of the state's schools give parents options and teachers flexibility to do what they think is best for a student's education. Unlike Oceanside, these two schools put the decisions into the hands of the parents. The schools oblige the parents' choice, whatever it may be. At Hall Elementary waivers are also easily obtainable, says Elvira Cuevas, a migrant education teacher at the school. But in the structured English-immersion classes, she says her school still struggles with how to teach under the proposition's confusing provisions.
Every teacher has a different meaning.
It's too broad. With no clear guidelines beyond the measure itself, administrators and teachers around the state have been wrestling with the challenge of creating English-immersion classrooms that comply with 227. At times Frontz wonders whether her schools are in some way in conflict with the law. Linda Frontz, principle of three elementary school's at Escalon School District, sits at her desk with the district's education codes. Frontz says when propositions like 227 try to implement a blanket-approach policy, it doesn't work.