Indiana Schools Are Installing “Translation Stations” for Students Who Don’t Understand English
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it's increasingly common. In many Texas schools, there is a TV monitor in the classroom that "hears" whatever the teacher is saying in English and automatically translates it into written Spanish. So many of the kids keep their eyes glued to the TV screen for the closed captioning, rather than actually looking at the teacher.
Wait till the translation machines are translating into Mandarin or some African or middle eastern language, Ukrainian or Pakistan Urdu. It's not just for Spanish speaking kids.
in Texas, the way many schools are "serving" these non-English and non-Spanish speakers you mention is to actually hire teaching assistants who speak Arabic, Urdu, etc. These assistants sit at the tables with the students and interpret for them, help them do their assignments, etc.
Why not? It's only taxpayer money. I've seen classrooms of 20 students together with one teacher and four teaching assistants (translators). It's a circus, and the taxpayer-funded salaries of the teaching crew easily reaches $1000/classroom/day.
In spite of all this bending over backwards to reach the students who can't or won't learn English, academic results are still exceedingly poor.
Of course the results are poor. That's by design. The dumbing down and infiltration of America.
I have to say that the Ukrainian kids are actually not a problem. Most of them arrive in the U.S. speaking English pretty well as a result of movies and video games. They are super sharp, especially in math and science, and they have Christian values. They quickly fit into traditional American society the same way that Eastern European immigrants from a century ago did.
As far as English proficiency goes, the Ukrainian kids usually push themselves very hard to master writing and academic vocabulary. They tend to beat themselves up if they make grammar mistakes. Their attitude is the polar opposite of the Arabs.
Interesting to hear from someone who has first hand experience of this.
As a kid growing up in the bay area I remember occasionally foreign students would join our class. It was never a whole block of Spanish speaking kids though.
I've met many successful immigrants from the Ukraine and Russia while living in LA many years ago. They were very hard working, family loving people. Their homeland is now a sh*thole unfortunately.
yeah, white Christian immigrants have not typically been problematic in the USA, so I'm not alarmed by the current influx of Ukrainians. In fact, they help to offset some of the cultural degradation being inflicted by the Muslims, Chinese, and Africans.
I recently visited a Texas classroom (far from the border, btw) that had only one native English speaker, a white kid who was forced to learn alongside 20 illegals from Mexico. It was ridiculous that he alone could understand what the teacher was saying.
I asked the teacher how often he assigns homework to this class. He laughed and told me that he has an unspoken agreement with this students: He won't assign homework, and they won't bring guns to class. I guess it was a win-win?