Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iAHK0v609975; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:00:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:00:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <21BEB8F3.602A7B61.0006CB3C@netscape.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: tjjhjr@netscape.net To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10566] RE: literacy issues X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1755 Lines: 39 THIS HAPPENS SO OFTEN ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY---CLAUDIO SANCHEZ OF NPR DID A PIECE ON A BOY IN NEW OXFORD PA---HE WAS 12 AND PLACED IN 6TH GRADE.....THE ELEM SCHOOL WAS ACROSS THE STREET....HE GOT INTO FIGHTS....HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ANYONE...HE WAS PRE-K IN SPANISH!!!!!!!.......WHY CAN'T WE HAVE A NATIONAL POPLICY OR AT LEAST GUIDELINES FOR KIDS LIKE THIS....INSTEAD WE ARE WITNESSING INTENTIONAL NEGLECT AND ABUSE.............ESL IN PA IS NOT EVEN A SUBJECT AREA FOR TEACHER CERTIFICATION! "pop.intrex.net" <econdon@intrex.net> wrote: >A student has just arrived from Honduras. He has been placed >age-appropriately into the 8th grade at the public middle school in Durham, >NC where I am an ESL teacher. > >He has completed 1st grade in his home country and some of 2nd. He is >unable to read or even write his name. He has been working as a brick >layer. > >We have thought to put him into one class most of the day--the science >teacher's class in part because she is so hands on. He will get the same >lesson over and over and have an environment that is familiar to him. > >He will go to an elective ESL class (that is how ESL is scheduled in this >public school) and a Spanish class. > >Does anyone have any wisdom, or material ideas--print or computer that could >be available or purchased in a public school? > >thanks >emilie condon > > > __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
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