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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I ran into the mother of my daughter’s classmate at school and she mentioned that she also knew my son because she’d worked with him at school. I said, oh, doing what? And she said she had been the ESL teacher.

The thing is, my son was not an English language learner. He is Korean but his language at home is English. I must’ve sounded really stupid trying to understand why he had been pulled out all last year for this. She said he had tested out (obviously).

Why would the school do this?[/quote]

The exact same thing happened to me! My son is Korean but spoke English from birth. Pulled out for esl.

It’s racist.

The only perk is he met other Korean boys to play with that he wouldn’t have met otherwise. [/quote]

OP's child received extra personalized educational attention in a way that caused him no personal harm or shame.  I assume there was no issue since mom didn't know it was happening so the kid must have taken the help at face value.

My sister is white.  Her biracial Korean American child received additional reading support in a very fine school district partly at her insistence.  He is bright but refused to practice reading in K-1.  So he had some mild deficits.  All gone now, partly thanks to early 1:1 intervention work with teachers.

My white husband from an all-English-speaking family received speech therapy at school because of making a few sounds wrong.  This was partly due to having low-income parents with non-standard pronunciations.

It sounds like these cases were triggered by a check box.

If everyone throws racism into the mix as a casual explanation, help and support will be reduced.  Why would you want to contribute to that kind of world?[/quote]

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