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Message: <blockquote data-quote="retrieverman" data-source="post: 4381704" data-attributes="member: 24452">I don’t disagree with you or [USER=51737]@HillsideDesolate[/USER] on this, but having kids that speak little to no english in a class is tough on a teacher and ultimately affects the whole class.  My wife doesn’t “dumb down” her lessons for non english speaking kids, but she lets them do what they can do and grades it accordingly.  She offers all her students the opportunity to come in before or after school if they need extra help, but it’s always the overachievers that show up and almost never the ones the need actually need the help.The mexican kids my boys grew up with in the late 90’s/early 2000’s had parents that spoke little to no english, but the kids were fluent and very smart.  The ones my wife has now are 180% on the other end of the spectrum.</blockquote>