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My Observation Of Immigrant Students
enjoy reading your post. You made very good observations between both the NEA and the CEC, I like that you mentioned about teachers not talking to people about the students. I don't work in the school system yet, as many of our classmates that are already working with students, A few months ago I was talking to a lady that is also going to school to be a teacher, she was telling me that she went to a school to do her practicum field experience at a school where there were a lot of immigrant students. She was stunned as to how the teacher kept talking to her a person she just had met, about how terrible the students were, she mentioned things that were completely unethical and disrespectful. She told me how badly and sad she felt for the

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