Today we made a list of the pros and cons of having separate schools for immigrants or mainstreaming them into schools with everyone else.Maybe I am only seeing one side, but I didn't even see a need to discuss this because segregating the schools isn't even an option.Besides the fact that it is illegal, it just seems very stupid to have separate schools for different countries. By making the pros and cons of both choices, it made it seem that segregating countries was possibly a good option.
As for planning to mainstream the immigrant children, I found that it is a much more difficult task than I thought. Not only do the students need extra help with their English, but how are they adapting to America? Who is going to look out for them in a classroom of thirty students? Who pays for the extra help? What repercussions come from giving them extra help? Where is the line drawn? If it is embarrassing to be taken out for English help, is it embarrassing to be taken out for Math help? Should all the people who are bad at math be put into a special school? No. These are all issues that might be best discussed in each individual school district. That way all the personal circumstances can be recognized.
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