Three new students this week, maybe four. It's never easy to incorporate new families--both adults and children--and yet it lifts my spirits in some ways. One mother is 31 and has three children, ages 12, 13, and 2. The other one is 41 and has eight children ranging in age from 22 to 1. She has been in class several years ago. The third student comes from a home in which the phone is answered with a "Bueno." It took a while to get her in class because I was not communicating with those who answered the phone. The fourth is a father whose baby's mom is ready to take the GED exam. I'm not convinced he will stick with us. So each one is atypical in a way. All four can read fairly well so that helps with three of the GED exams, but all four are a lot weaker in math.
That's OK. In many ways, it's easier to pull up those math scores. Although when someone comes into the class without being able to do basic whole number subtraction, multiplication, and division, it's a pretty big gap from that to passing the GED exam.
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