(NAME-MCE) Hispanic parents sue over English speaking

[Abington-Pitre Aeve]

I recall being tested for SPED in Elementary School because the school did 
not know anything about ESL at the time. It cuts both ways. Parents have to 
question everything and get someone to come with them if they are not sure 
about things.


-Aeve Abington-Pitre, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor - Department of Curriculum and Instruction- 337.482.1618
NCATE Coordinator - College of Education - 337.482.1422

337.482.5904 (Fax)

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From: amneh at nmsu.edu
To: name-mce at nameorg.org
Sent: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:19:53 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: (NAME-MCE) Hispanic parents sue over English speaking

> I was not surprised when I read the case, becuase one of my frined
> daughter's had been placed in ESL classroom for three years,after 
> that the ESL teacher began to recognize that the girl had a kind of 
> disability in reading, and that she was behind calss mate in reading 
> English because of her disability not because she is bilingual students.
> 
> In my opinion, the comment of Janette Klinger," Matters can become
> complicated regarding children with disabilities,
> Schools commonly err in labeling ESL students as students with
> disabilities, not the other way around." professor of education
> specializing in bilingual special education at the University of Colorado
> at Boulderis,  raise  a critical question to the educatores in Bilingual
> field of to what extent the  ESl tests can differentiate between a
> disability and lack of proficiency in English?, and, Do speaking another
> langauge at home will qualify more kids to join the ESl classrooms,
>  if that is the case, then we are contradicting ourselves as multicultural
> educatores between the push to create a diverse population of 
> students at school, and between making bilingual students 
> monolingual in order to classify them as proficient in English.
> 
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