HIGH SCHOOL GIRL FEELS HER TIME SPENT IN ESL CLASSES WAS A WASTE

In this piece, the writer, an 11^th grader who came to this country in 2006, maintains that “the ESL program not only defeats it original purpose, it also delays the opportunity for foreign students to catch up with their English-speaking classmates.”

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