"just because we don't have complete equity for all groups, we should not try to promote equity for any groups at all?"
aeh I completely agree that there should, in an ideal world, be some way to test bilingual children, but in this situation, in which a large portion of privileged children speak a second language, and economically disadvantaged children are less likely to, what it ends up as is a way for people with advantages to appeal for special privileges.
I'm willing to participate in testing for my child's sake, just not to ask for an exception for myself, knowing what I do about how that works.
Anyway, who knows. She's been immersed in English for a year now and rather than reading one grade level ahead is reading 6th grade books, so maybe she's made up the gap.
