Fucking Racist

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My wife is an ESL teacher and they have their own classroom. It is amazing some of techniques they use. It helps that she knows french, german, spanish and latin, quite a bit of symbolism is used. Even the Asians learn, after one year alone they are fairly good at english.

Do you mind if I ask what grade, Maggot? Your wife sounds cool. I'd like to be bi-lingual much less multi-lingual. Good job marrying up.

I tried to find out on our district's website how they handle ESL students but couldn't find any information (if it's there, it's in Spanish). To my knowledge though, they don't have separate classes although maybe they get some time out of the regular classrooms to work on learning English.

Whenever our STAR test reports come out, there's a huge disparity between the ESL and non-ESL students. I found this little tidbit on the subject:

A study published last week by Californians Together, a civil rights coalition in support of English-learners, highlighted the significant gaps in public high schools across California, proving that our educational systems for English as Second Language students are severely lacking.

The study found that almost 60 percent of ESL students in California high schools have not achieved written proficiency in the language, even after six years of a U.S. education.

Though most of the polled students were bilingual citizens who preferred to speak English, the study showed that the disparity between speaking and reading comprehension was severe enough to jeopardize graduation in a majority of the cases.

We don't have the money to spend on these kids and yet, having them in regular classrooms isn't necessarily fair to the non-ESL students. We're fucked.