#and my ENL students were all evaluated after kindergarten so they’d already been put in ENL

[merlinsear]

Also I just found out this afternoon that I’m getting a new student tomorrow who just moved from Ecuador and does not know any English. This would be less of a concern if the ENL students in my class actually received ENL services as they are legally mandated to, but somehow there wasn’t any room in the schedule this year for the self-contained special ed classes to have ENL services. How interesting that compliance is so important until suddenly it’s not.

#the reasoning was that we typically have our students opted out of ENL when they start out in a small special ed class #because it’s always more of a speech delay than a language acquisition issue and they benefit more from being in the classroom #and my ENL students were all evaluated after kindergarten so they’d already been put in ENL #but this is a child who genuinely does not speak English where is his expert English as a new language teacher? #my life as a seventh year teacher