ESL community college courses in WHAT A TURTLE KEEPS IN IT'S SHELL.
Revised: 09/22/2015 3:59 p.m.
- Sept. 22, 2015, 2 a.m.
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My wife went to her first one (at this same CC) about 12 years ago. She went to 10 classes and quit saying she understood NOTHING!
She went all last year also so she could advance up the ‘ladder’ at work. When the first session was complete they told her she passed to go to the next. She said “WHAT?! I want to take this one again I did not learn much.” They said no and she steadily advanced in her classes all year. It all looks great on paper for the CC but she is disgusted. She still has trouble stringing sentences together and their teaching parts of complicated sentence structure and having her write stories on a high school senior level . Worthless....
She complained to the teachers and the staff but they refuse to allow her to take the course over… any of them! And she is not the only one to complain. And average semester starts out with around 18 to 20 pupils (adults). After 3 classes HALF of them drop out. After 5 classes it’s my wife and 3 to 4 other students who tough it out and learn NOTHING! It’s like they skipped grades 1 through 7 and started at 8!
I feel the night classes are too long for blue collar people. Except for my Thai wife the rest are Mexican immigrants doing back busting vineyard and nursery work. They have families and most of them are off to work at 5AM. We are also up at 5 AM to get my wife off to the deli where she works. The classes start at 7:30 and are over at 10. A lot of the students are home by 4 or 5. Classes could start at 6.
And why is no one wondering why 18 people start and only 4 pass the final tests? Me thinks they only care about the money and doing things by the book with little or no regard for the people who want to learn AND WORK AND HAVE A FAMILY LIFE!
My step daughter has been here a year and already is WAY ahead of her mom. (A teenager WILL learn to talk and chat no matter what!)
Bottom line. There needs to be a course to teach people to SPEAK and UNDERSTAND English FIRST! Then learn some simple reading and writing.. VERY simple. If they want more then that there are other courses. But BASICS first, please!! Fer gawds sake any 3rd grade teacher could bring these people up to speaking/writing speed in half the time.
I’m just irritated because she very much wants to learn English. (Yes I’ve bought dozens of books, flash cards, programs, etc.)
Last updated September 22, 2015
Changing ⋅ September 22, 2015
I labeled it PUBLIC but it did not show up on the home page with everyone else. WTF?
a boy and his tapeworm ⋅ September 23, 2015
The brains of teenagers are more "plastic" than those of older adults, thereby making it easier to acquire new skills such as the use of additional languages.