Reply #86

and is being disruptive. He keeps saying "I'm French, I'm French...I need a special form written in French." And if the area has had a large influx of people who speak only French, going to schools and working, while not learning to speak English. It would be the same thing if the teacher were to say in frustration, "Then go back to France," since there is no French language form.

The school should handle the Spanish-speaking issue in some way. Giving English lessons to Spanish-only speaking kids or tutoring or something. The teachers of other subjects are there to teach those subjects, in the language that is most common and historical to Americans, English. They don't have interpreters or translator services to provide special schooling in other languages, whether it's German, French, or Spanish.

In this case, it sounds as if it wasn't a good kid making a request, but a kid with a pattern of being disruptive. Hence the frustration of the teacher. That's no excuse for what she said, but it is an explanation & reason for giving her a pass this once, if she didn't have a pattern of that.