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[quote=Anonymous]My experience is dated so this may not be that helpful, but I went to a dcps with a high ESL population in the early nineties. I actually think it was a great experience for me, being with kids from all around the world.

Teachers would often have me pair up with a bilingual Spanish speaking kid to help re explain the lesson to a group of Spanish speaking kids. I liked doing that.

I also liked flying under the radar screen a lot because the kids who were esl did take up lots of the teachers time. They teachers would let me just hang out and read and write. My parents would only let me take high quality books to school to read, usually history books like biographies. I also would get dispatched to the first grade class room to help run reading groups with the younger kids.

I’m a professor now and I sometimes joke I should get to put my teaching experience from grade school on my cv!

This worked for me, but I was advanced and well behaved and had no special needs. I went to a top private school after grade school and was ahead in English and history but behind in math and science.[/quote]

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