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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does a kid get deemed violent and disrespectful? Does that include fidgety boys in elementary school? Anyone on the autism spectrum?

Is it the teacher's choice? What safeguards will be put in place to prevent bias on a teacher or administration's part before sending a child to the special school?

Is the move to the school done before the start of school? Or is it a three-strikes, you get a mid-year school transfer that will be disruptive and detrimental to the child's education? Will there be a chance for parents to protest the ruling?

How much paperwork and time will all this take?I see so many red flags with this proposal. [b]I also don't see any evidence that disruptive or violent students are a huge problem in any FCPS school, underperforming or no. [/b]

Also, I'd like to hope that the assumption isn't that ESOL students are supposed to be violent students in MS-13 gangs.
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OP. I believe there are plenty of parents around the county who can supply all the evidence that principals don't want to report.

As for ESOL, there was no assumption about a link to MS13--that's your hot take. While the majority of ESOL around the county are Spanish speakers, it's hardly the only native language that one finds in classrooms where ESOL are failing to keep up or slowing the entire class down.

Kids can't learn if they can't understand English. Why do any of you want a sub-optimal outcome for these kids that compromised the learning environment for the rest of the class? Bring them up to speed on English and you will be helping them take the first step towards success in academics. Improve the SOLs for high ESOL schools and maybe certain areas of the country will see a pickup in families staying in their pyramids instead of falsifying addresses or requesting course-based transfers just to avoid certain schools.

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So.... parent reports will determine who gets kicked out to the "bad" school and who stays in the regular school?

And since immersing a child in the language is apparently a bad way to learn, should FCPS drop their language immersion program? Because kids can't learn if they can't understand German or Japanese, and there are core subjects taught in those languages. [/quote]

Immersion is a good way to learn, but that's not what's happening in Glen Forest elementary. Those kids are not learning English and they are not keeping up with the lessons. Go look at how Middlebury teaches languages through total immersion. ESOL kids need to be in English language instruction, not mainstream classes.[/quote]

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