Why are children being put into esol when they only know English?

I’d been told that in select states, it is policy for a child with bilingual parents or families who state parents can speak another language at home. However, there was a student who was put into esol even after parents noted that they only speak English at home. The parents weren’t born in the U.S. but left at a very young age so they only understand English. I think that’s just racist as basing off looks. I known a bunch of esol classes where 99% of the class only speaks English aside from a select few students who speak a little bit of another language, as 99% of the class was born in the U.S. Speaking a little bit of another language still isn’t English for speakers of other languages. I teach Vietnamese to Vietnamese American students and we have students who are trying to learn Vietnamese so they can communicate with family but they were still put into esol. I’ve had classmates who had to wait to take classes like Spanish because ESOL used up their elective space and they wanted to take classes like Spanish so they could communicate with family. Since when did ESOL turn into having such a big turn out of students who only know English.

Submitted September 15, 2023 at 03:43PM by Additional_Text_7229 https://ift.tt/DIsG4tU