How many teachers are leaving your school next year?
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Anonymous
+1 yep. ESOL teacher isn’t that important in the grand scheme. We need the classroom teacher. |
Anonymous
| It is when half of your class is ESOL! |
Anonymous
Yes in that case it would be, but not the case at our school. Very rare to have a kid that doesn't speak English. |
Anonymous
+1 also, the ESOL position they need is only part time. |
Anonymous
Something is terribly wrong and our elected officials are failing our society if you have schools where half the kids are esol. No wonder there is a teacher shortage. How can schools keep up? |
Anonymous
The immigrant communities in Fairfax live near each other in very packed in conditions (often two families to an apartment ). My students will often tell me that they live with their mom, aunt, uncle, and cousins in an apartment. My school takes from a very large low income apartment complex so your school can fill up with ESOL students quickly. |
Anonymous
By listening to teachers and taking concerns seriously. Some schools really don't need 2-3 full time ESOL teachers. Other schools desperately need 2-3 ESOL teachers per grade level. Also, there needs to be code enforcement at some of these apartment buildings and houses where multiple families are packed into a couple rooms. This is not the job of the school system nor the teachers but it's terrible that localities look the other way and pretend it's not happening and expect schools to pick up the slack. |
Anonymous
I'm an ESOL teacher in a different district. We have this situation. Very few of my students were born outside of the US. They are American citizens. Their parents speak Spanish and Arabic. Many of their English speaking classmates would qualify for ESOL if I tested them. They are far from proficient in English. Our elected officials aren't failing us when this has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with the 14th Amendment which has been the law of this country since just after the Civil War. It's the same law that gives citizenship to you and your kids. |
Anonymous
At pre-k through 1 there is a significant number of kids in schools districts who are not immigrants. Their parents speak another language other either solely or in addition to English. They teach/speak this language as the primary language at home because they know the kids will learn English at school. This ensures their kids will be bilingual or trilingual and that they won’t loose the language of their heritage. |
Anonymous
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And the same house with HALF the square footage is 1 million in Fairfax.
Which is why I bought a mobile home in Fairfax. |
Anonymous
The answer is they can't keep up. Schools with large numbers of farms students keep those kids in gen ed and those classes crawl. The kids in those classes all fail the SOL every year and make the school administration look terrible which leads to turnover. Kids with parents who care are either in AA or honors. |
Anonymous
The 14 amendemet give citizenship to the kids. There is nothing preventing aggressive enforcement from deporting other family members. |
Anonymous
| Wow - Navy newsletter just went out and SOL scores went up a lot this year under the new principal - very impressive!!! Also, almost all the vacant positions are filled! Looking forward to fall! |
Anonymous
Here goes the navy obsessed mom again..why don't you just start your own navy post? Oh wait, because they always go south with argumentive and meanspirited language. |
Anonymous
\ LOL....no one cares |