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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. The ESOL teacher will test her in English and most likely test her 1st language literacy too. By 5th grade, this student is mostly likely literate in Spanish barring extreme circumstances. BTW- There is no official language of the U.S. [/quote]

[b]MCPS teacher here, most times these kids are not literate in Spanish because they come from poor countries seeking a better life. Which means their families are barely literate and they often have had little to no formal education in their own language. Similar to poor minority children here who speak broken english due to their circumstances. The illegal immigrants coming here have no formal education, many times it’s generationally. It’s not the legal immigrants who are sucking up ESOL services because the legal ones usually have had enough formal education to go through the US legal process by-themselves or with a company. Many legal immigrants are white collar workers. Let’s not pretend that these children and their families are literate.[b] OP, do something now, document everything and push the principal and teacher to change their practices. If not go up the email chain. MCPS will usually create a policy in the background for professional staff in the background, even if you think it’s rolling along slow.[/b][/b][/quote]

I'm the other MCPS teacher who posted on this thread. Are you kidding with this? What kind of policy are you saying MCPS will create? That sentence doesn't even make sense. Do you teach students who come from other countries? How do you treat them? With the contempt you clearly show you have for them in this post? You want parents to "do something now, document everything and push the principal and teacher to change their practices?" I agree that the current practice isn't sustainable which is why it will stop soon. The teacher clearly doesn't know what else to do and needs to collaborate with the ESOL teacher. It's the first week of school. Give it time.

Where do you work? I'd never want my kid to have you as a teacher and I would never want to work with you. Since you're so quick to escalate such a non issue based on clear contempt for a child and where they came from, I'm sure you're a great role model for kids. I have a serious pit in my stomach knowing there are people like you out there teaching our kids. [/quote]

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