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[quote=Anonymous][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]
I'm Korean, but my kids don't speak it (bad me).    I know of a half South American kid that this happened to. It's because they spoke another language at home.   And the schools do it because they get extra funding per each ESL student.[/quote]

PP.  Schools are generally underfunded and want to retain access to specialists whenever they can.  So they can easily provide needed services.  I do not believe this is a racist conspiracy to provide additional ESL jobs.   Education is an underfunded mess right now.  I don't blame admins for proactively checking checkboxes to make sure they have resources and overproviding tailored instruction and assessments.  As the professional above indicated, there are always fluid small groups forming and reforming in early grade literacy/English instruction with the goal of remediation issues and getting all children to display skill growth.

Keep in mind that the political winds right now are quite energized around removing supports and assistance for learners with non-English backgrounds of any type.  Complaining about racism when help is being given to your child just throws gasoline on the fire.

As a parent, you should be informed of what is going on with your child and have some ability to turn off services.  But you are basically substituting your opinions for what teachers have been trained to do as part of their profession.  It's possible for parents to be correct and also for parents to be wrong.  Sometimes it's too grey to ever know what the right choice should be.  I say that if your kid is making skill progress and is neutral about pullout, there is no reason to intervene.[/quote]

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