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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure how this thread on vacancies moved to being about ELL students, but I'll bite. I work in an FCPS middle school and firmly believe that the county should have separate schools for English language learners to attend for a semester - or a year even - to learn English before going mainstream into base schools. Honestly, they can't learn English as well as content (so bad for them) and teachers can't do well teaching non-English speakers as well as all the levels of other students in the room, it's too much to ask of one professional (so bad for ALL students). How is this not obvious to everyone as a more cost effective and equitable solution??[/quote]

The problem is there are four categories of ELL.

1) Born in US but ESL. We have students in 6th grade who are ESL and you would never be able to tell because they speak fine. It is the reading/writing piece.

2) Newly Level 1 students from well educated families/backgrounds. These are your kids who don’t speak a lick of English in August and can read on a 4th/5th grade level by end of year. They are literate in their home language.

3) New Level 1 students with interrupted education due to danger of going to school.

4) Diplomats kids. Some may have some English or very little, but they are here for only a few years.

I would be okay if group number 3 had a separate program because they are so far behind they truly need specialized programming. The others can and should be in GenEd but there needs to be more ESL support in ES. [/quote]

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