Reply to Why more focus on ELL than special education?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Why more focus on ELL than special education?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an ESOL teacher and I find that more lip service is paid to prioritizing ELLs in schools while more actual time, services and attention is paid to special ed students even though the student numbers are disproportionate.

ESOL teachers can have around 60 students in multiple grade levels on their caseloads while special ed teachers have a maximum of 10 in maybe 2 grade levels max, and they have special ed paras to support the special ed teachers with their admin work and students in the classrooms. [/quote]

OP - This is NOT the case at our school. Please do not make such a sweeping generalization based on your individual experience. At our school, our ELL students often get short shrifted, as do their teachers, whereas SpEd students are top priority. Their SpEd teachers have smaller caseloads and increasingly get more and more classrooms, whereas we have not one room dedicated. They are NEVER pulled away from their students whereas ELL teachers often are. Your claim is unfounded and dangerous. Please go pick on someone else, like the greedy 1 percenters.[/quote]

Whoa, reading comprehension is important. You are both saying the exact same thing. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics