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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree. Teachers teach. Regardless. It is administration's expectations of how children are to be taught that makes it so stressful. A good teacher will teach any child from where they are and take them as far as they can go. If teachers were allowed to simply teach it would alleviate a lot of pressure. Susan from the high SES family is not going to come in one the same level as Juan whose family just arrived in the country.[b] However, a good teacher with the right resources can have them both on the same level playing field by year's end with the proper supports in place. [/quote]
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Wow!
This would be funny if it were not so wrong.
I am NOT the PP you to whom you are responding.
I only have one issue with her post--I taught many years ago in a very, very poor Title I school.  The situation was the same then as it is now.  Parents not showing for conferences and native English speakers with low language development.  I taught kids in first grade who could not count to ten (not just could not do one-to-one counting, but literally could not count out loud to ten.
Are you a teacher?  You seriously believe that Susan and Juan can be on the same level by the end of the year?  Maybe, if Juan comes from the same socio-economic background--maybe, Dad is a corporate businessman or something.  But, if Juan does not have skills in his own language and has not had books in his home, it is highly unlikely he will be even with Susan by the end of the year--even with the "proper supports in place".

Have you ever taught a kid who did not have basic skills--like being able to describe a flower or fruit in any language?  A child who does not speak in complete sentences--ever?  Those children exist--and, they are not necessarily immigrants.  They are children who are ignored and whose parents neglect them.  Things you take for granted and foreign to some people.

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