My colleague Old Fart gleefully told me today about my school’s fairly out-of-it assistant principal’s observation of the Spanish teacher, G.
It seems that because of the ongoing state testing scheduling wackaroos, all of the school’s ESL population (the vast majority of which are native Spanish speakers) had ended up in G’s classroom for the afternoon. Apparently without noticing the class demographics, the assistant principal watched as G conversed with his students in Spanish.
“You’ve done a really good job with these students,” the principal told G later. (“I’ve never seen anything like it,” I imagine him thinking. “Fluent Spanish speakers produced in a middle school elective!”)