(NAME-MCE) Hispanic parents sue over English speaking

[jean miller]

and this is why we need both advocates AND cultural liaisons.  many immigrant parents don't have time or cannot communicate well enough in english to feel competent to question stuff related to school.  also, for some people, based on their "home" culture and experiences, it is not appropriate to question the decisions made by the school.
 to what extent do ANY of our school districts or community colleges or universities provide any sort of advocacy support for students and families whose first language is not english?
 regads,
 jean
 

Abington-Pitre Aeve <asa6869 at louisiana.edu> wrote: 

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)

---------- Original Message -----------
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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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jean miller
 english department, de anza college
 408.864.5530
 "There is a strange kind of enigma associated
 with the problem of racism.  No one, or almost
 no one, wishes to see themselves as racist;
 still racism persists.  Albert Memmi, Racism

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