My 9 year old, adopted two years ago, is stuck
in an ESL program, which is usually pushed as a good thing
and may be OK for some kids, but there seems to be no benefit
for my child and no way out. My son is pulled out from his
classroom and often misses important instruction time and
tests. A constantly changing schedule of these services
is stressful for him: there are too many distractions and
hardly any homework. He meets 2 of the criteria for exit
from the ESL program (speaking and understanding), but fails
reading and writing portions of the exit test. At this time
he does not understand a single word in Russian, of course.
