" My first year in science class, the teacher gave me a test and he said, 'I think you can't do this test because you don't speak English, but anyway I will give you a B if you come every day.' I started to cry- he assume that I couldn't do it, and I felt really bad. Because I feel comfortable when I study and take a good grade and say. 'I did this.' -Elaine"
This part of the chapter made me very sad for this student. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have a teacher give up on me so easily, and to just say he would give me a B. I would be very upset because I wouldn't have learned anything. This is the reason that this teacher disgusts me. I would try to have some kind of peer or adult translator to sit in with the student during class and work one on one with them, or I would ask the student what kind of test they would like to take because maybe saying the answers orally would be easier for them.
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