QR chapter 8

This chapter does make some sense in that we need to find a way to teach students who don't speak English, but I don't like how it goes about it. It talks about ways of moving around the problem or finding a way to teach around that fact. Thats fine to do for awhile but it can't be a permanent solution. Because then these students won't be learning English and they will have a hard time getting along in the country. This is that same issue as when we say we understand that you don't want to do math, but we're going to teach around that, well thats fine in a history class, but you can't teach around math in a math class. Thats just redundant. Then we lower the standards that you don't need math to be successful in school then we have an entire nation of adults who can't do math who teach their children that you don't need math and before you know it the language that is math is gone when it is an essential skill. The fact of the matter is to get along in every day life in most parts of the country you need to have at least some grasp of English so they need to learn it eventually.