re: #135 Cato the Elder

What is “ELD”?

I hate acronyms.

ELD is English Language Development.

Here’s how it goes in California: You enter the country, and get given the California English Language Development Test, otherwise CELDT. (Pronounced “Celt”.) You are rated at 1 (no English to speak of) to 5 (fluent). You will remain an English language learner until you are formally declared fluent by achieving a 5 on the CELDT and achieving some other goals.

Now, it’s possible to have a middle-school science class with a bunch of 3-5s in it. These are “students who are still learning English”, but I see no problem with their math teacher having an accent.