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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fixed.

[quote=Anonymous]They are not going to skew the curve for the one[b] non-native [/b]speaker in the class.  You cannot give everyone in the class and "A".[/quote]

If you read the thread about the MoCo immersion program there are no non-native speakers in the class to skew to even if they want to...  So it's all native speakers.[/quote]

And THAT is the part I find troubling.  I totally get the benefit of native speakers in class with non-native speakers, [b]where there is a really structured and consistent interaction between the groups[/b].  To read these MoCo threads, somewhere a gap develops in proficiency and it almost sounds like the teachers just stop trying to engage the non-native speakers in a rigorous way.  If there are a lot of non-native speakers in the early grades, but none or almost none in the upper grades?  That sounds so sad for the students who really get into it and do their best.  Clearly not saying anyone should skew to lower-level students, or that somehow there should be two grading systems.  But surely there is more the schools could do to develop the non-native speakers, since everyone and their cousin trips over themselves to remind us in every YY thread that higher % of native speakers is supposed to positively influence everyone, not push the non-native spearkers out in the upper grades.[/quote]

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