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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a recovering JHU graduate. Her first year got off to a bang with a roommate from South Korea who was so ashamed of her pigeon English that she only spoke to other Asians. Try taking an advanced math class at JHU with a classroom "teacher" whose first language was English.[/quote]

I'm assuming that was supposed to read "not English"? So did your daughter stick with the racism she learned at home, or did she discover the joy of knowing diverse groups of people?[/quote]

I don't think it's racist to point out that having a math TA who doesn't speak or understand English well is frustrating, and it was a problem at my college too. It's a reasonable expectation that your teachers be able to comprehend and communicate with students.

I'm sympathetic, because when I TA'd at Hopkins I had several ESL students in my class who weren't able to read or write English at a proficient level. It was hard to decode the meaning of their written work, and they couldn't follow our class discussions or read the texts (it was a literature class). I gave them OK grades, making huge allowances for their language skills, because I felt like they were trying to the extent possible, but it felt unfair for them to be in my class without at least a basic competency in English.[/quote]

Serious question. So how did such students get through the reading & writing sections of the SAT to score well enough to be admitted to a school like JHU? Supposedly those are the parts one can't improve much through prep? Or is full-pay that impactful for admission despite the score? [/quote]

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