I am an independent Japanese teacher. I have a student who sought me out because she read all my online resources and needed further instruction. She is from Puerto Rico (like me). She speaks Spanish at home. She understands English perfectly well, even if she doesn't speak it regularly. She has dreams of doing her undergraduate degree in the United States. I have no doubt that she has the potential to do so. She really is quite brilliant once she's given the space to thrive. However, the school system she is in is subpar. She doesn't have a robust math foundation (Algebra I and spotty Algebra II) and all the English she knows she's had to do by herself. (The only novel in English she's ever read in school was The Giver). She's taken the SAT twice. Once she got ~950 and the second time she got ~1150.
She's looking for advice for college. It seems to me that it'd do her well to do a junior college program to acclimatize her to the US and bring her up to speed on certain subjects before finishing her bachelor's at a regular university. Maybe that's not the best advice to give her, though.
Any thoughts? Many thanks in advance.
Submitted September 25, 2021 at 01:01PM by raindiioannis https://ift.tt/3AHc0wz
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