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Should we teach ESL students or not?
An absence of TESOL education classes would have severe detrimental effects on the quality of education provided to the children of Nevada. Our state has reached a pivotal point. Today we have the highest increase of English language learners in the nation. In 2007-2008, nearly 18% of Washoe County School District students took English language learning classes, and in 2009 Limited English Proficient students in Washoe County graduated at a rate of only 16%. It would seem obvious that TESOL teacher education courses will remain essential to the professional preparation of all K-12 educators and become increasingly so into the future.
Any lack of trained TESOL educators would have a profound effect on the already undereducated workforce of Nevada. An increase in high school dropouts in Reno will lead to more people living in poverty, increased health care costs, increased crime (80% of prisoners in America are high school dropouts), and declining revenues for the state. Studies put the average cost to taxpayers, including incarceration costs, over the working life of each high school dropout at $292,000.
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