Thread: Just found out my daughter is in an ESL

very interesting, justme. I had no idea.

I knew that people with hispanic names claim that ethnicity for the sake of the handouts involved for indivuals but I had no idea that it was profitable for the school systems themselves to segregate an entire group of people. How enlightening!

yep ... I have friends in OH and Pa that had to go into the school and demand a different class as their children did not speek anything but English...

Originally Posted by diana717

But I have NEVER been in an airport anywhere in the world where the messages weren't followed up in ENGLISH. That may have changed since 2001, which was the last time I flew internationally, but that is the way it was then.

You are 100% correct. I flew internationally a few months ago and at the airports messages are always announced in English. And doing business in Europe while in Italy and in Germany almost everyone I came into contact with spoke English.

This all means nothing if we can't take care of the mess in our own house!
I love the fact the US public libraries have many many books is spanish!
Why aren't more laws passed that mandate english only policies?

I believe the children should have to pass an English competency test for the grade level the are enrolling for. If the child can't pass the test, it should be up to the parent, at their expense, to get the child to the reqired level.

Spanish to the side for a moment, what to people who speak languages other than English and Spanish do??

Originally Posted by JohnB2012

I believe the children should have to pass an English competency test for the grade level the are enrolling for. If the child can't pass the test, it should be up to the parent, at their expense, to get the child to the reqired level.

I totally agree with this!

I posted this a couple days ago on another thread but we have a disturbing situation with my son. He was just tested and was determined to have a learning disability. He is supposed to go to a class before school starts to get reading help from a specialist. Well, this class has turned into an ESL class. There are ESL classes, but in addition to those, all the non English speaking kids are also being put into the "special needs" class(designated for kids like my son, who need special help on reading or what have you.) Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture?! Needless to say, we are hiring a private tutor because it is an utter waste of his time to sit there while the ESL kids learn English, when he is to be getting reading help.

Originally Posted by JohnB2012

I believe the children should have to pass an English competency test for the grade level the are enrolling for. If the child can't pass the test, it should be up to the parent, at their expense, to get the child to the reqired level.

Spanish to the side for a moment, what to people who speak languages other than English and Spanish do??

Good question. There was an Asian boy at my sons school
and he couldn't speak English but he UNDERSTOOD it. He was
going to get tutoring but during classes he was taught in English.
Of course this was a different school district that had a high API
unlike my daughter's school which has a very low API. She won't
be there next year.

At the time, a friend of mine researched the topic of languages, and found if you were to go by population alone, it was Mandrin Chinese. English definalty for business. So that's how I knew the spanish teacher was crazy for saying that, but it was a means to start the ball rolling for spanish.

My daughter in law subs at school all the time, I am going to find out how they handle ESL there.