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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Speaking a second language is absolutely an asset to our students. I encourage parents to help students maintain their home language and to develop literacy skills in it.
2. “Fluency” has to be assessed. Speaking two languages does not mean speaking both fluently. Some children who are bilingual speak a lot of conversational English, but lack academic proficiency. These students, when assessed, may be a level 3 or 4 English speaker, which means they have some mastery of the language but could still benefit from additional language support. Offering EL support does not mean the child is deficient in any way.

The OP has not mentioned discussing what the friend/EL teacher said with the child’s actual teacher or school administration, so it’s 7nclear what actually happened with her child.[/quote]
In other words you disbelieve when immigrant parents say:
1. Their child speaks English and
2. That their child received ESL pullouts for a year and at the end of the year was assessed to not need them (that is what OP paid)

So yeah if you don't inform or ask parents before you spend a year pulling their kid out of class because the presence of another language at home indicates the parents can't be trusted to asses their kid's English language skills, then you are behaving in a discriminatory manner, because you have an inherently distrust of people who speak languages other than English.[/quote]

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