I agree with my commenter Jan. Over the years, I’ve gotten to be more and more fascinated by our foreign students, while cursing the charity that brings them in.
First of all, I really admire them. Can you imagine how scary it has been for them. I’ve had a girl for Afghanistan in two of my computer classes. She has a real flare for web design and I hope she follows it, tried PreAP CS and struggled with it. There are only three women, no men in her family, her mother and her sister.
I also feel badly for them. So often they are victims of our other students. Some what-to-be banger grabbed my Afghanistan’s head gear off of her, and has hasn’t worn it since. Never could find out who it was, in a way I’m glad but if I need the kid, I’ve have been all over her.
I get aggravated with the charity that brings them in, because it doesn’t seem they really think about where they are putting people. We’ve had some pretty violent incidents because two kids from opposing ethnic backgrounds were in close promixity to each other. I honestly think that you need to put them in different neighborhoods, going to different schools. And I know that can be done in Dallas. They all live in the same addresses (about 10 different apartment complexes).
Off to bed. I don’t have to be there at a certain time, but I don’t like the drive much after 7:30 until about 9:30. But then I lose some cool time to run errands. My room might be cool but the walk between it and the building isn’t.
Extra rain coat in my room would be good.
I’m looking into an ESL endorsement. At the rate I’m going, I’m going to be a formible teacher for a really small school: Math, Computer Science, Technology Applications with a Master’s.
Add an ESL certification and I’m REAL interesting. Love Dallas ISD though, as crazy as it is. At least I’ve been through some of the worse.