Reply #88

It's really the school district's fault, since they apparently don't provide alternate books and forms in other languages (French, German, Spanish, whatever). It's probably a money thing.

The kid, with a history of being disruptive it seems, was making an insistent thing about his needing a form in Spanish because he's Mexican. Her comment was a direct response to that, when the kid kept saying that, knowing that the school does not provide materials in other languages. It was just a comment out of frustration, and if not a pattern, is excusable at least once.

Teachers are only human. They lose their cool sometimes, make mistakes, just like you and I do.

I hope the Spanish-only speaking parents, with the school district, try to address the problem of kids who can't participate in class because they don't know the language. Maybe tutors, special classes to teach English to kids from other countries, etc. But that costs money.

It's a problem. I don't know...if I moved to Italy with kids and put them in public school, would Italy provide special textbooks and forms in English for us? Or would I try to get the kids some way to learn Italian? I don't. know. But it should be addressed, if those kids are going to get an education.