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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]All English for Speakers of Other Languages, Special Education, and resource teachers will work with small groups of students to reduce the student teacher ratios to 10 or less in each learning environment. Fine Arts teachers, Physical Education and Health will be included in the rotations to reduce the student teacher ratios. * One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue.[/i]

Our elementary school has almost 1,000 students. We have one ESOL teacher. My class of 23 students had two speech IEPs. Even with specialist support it would be tough to get classes sized down to 10.[/quote]

I’m an ESOL teacher and my only certification is ESOL. I’m not certified to teach general ed. So let’s say they gave me 10 ESOL students. Isn’t that directly in violation of the push to get rid of sheltered instruction like METS programs? They are dismantling those and putting those students back in their home schools, without any additional ESOL allocation or support, because they said research shows students don’t benefit and are even harmed by being separated from the general population. Same issue with special ed.

But let’s just say we ignore everything we’ve been told. It’s still a numbers game. Me taking 10 ESOL students from a grade level is a drop in the bucket numbers wise. We still don’t have enough staff to make every class have 10 students, which would probably need to be 9 if it includes the teacher and 8 if there still will be any para support.  Then there’s also the issue of rooms. For instance, I have a room but it’s about a third of the size of a regular classroom, so there wouldn’t be a way to keep kids 6 feet apart (theoretically of course—we all know that won’t actually happen due to kids being kids).

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