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To: cosmicforce who wrote (95155)	11/10/2008 1:28:44 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541851

We are trying to do that in my English department- and I am leading the way. Last year I built a CAHSEE class- which is a review class for students who cannot pass the CAHSEE. Most of the students are Hispanic, but not all of them are. It's a difficult class to teach, but it's needed. This year we are submitting a course approval for another class I made up- I wanted to call it "remedial English" but that wasn't PC enough. We'll probably end up calling it Senior English (which right now is composition). I envision senior English as being a fast paced review of grammar and writing skills which will enable minimally competent seniors, going to junior college, to escape junior college remedial English. My argument is "Let's remediate them now, while it's free for them- and then let them spend their hard earned money on Enlgish 1A". The composition teachers love the idea because they are lumbered with kids who have no business being in composition- the kids simply do not have the skills. I try to make every senior class I teach remedial, since I teach the lower students, and they definitely have deficits- but it would be nice to have a class that is actually supposed to be that.