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Originally Posted by carnation
Oh, here's the worst part: over half of them are on the honor roll, yet they continued to languish in ESOL because of that weird ACCESS test. I think that lots of American kids wouldn't pass it--they have to remember all these instructions in English and react to them.
Most were still in because their elementary teachers felt they still needed it. Okay...American-born, honor roll, great band and/or chorus members and they still need those classes? Creo que no!
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Your program is probably better than some of the ones I've seen (my present school's program is pretty good), but I think at a lot of schools, people are very reluctant to take away anything that gives a kid an academic crutch. "Why not give a kid a chance for a study class, modification, and small group testing?," I think is how they look at it.
(and then there was the one ESOL teacher who used to let them cheat/ helped them cheat when they took regular class tests in her room, but I'm sure that's the exception. Seriously, she used to let them look up answers. ETA: I don't mean standardized test; I just mean that the history teachers basically busted her letting kids take content tests open history book.)
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