**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** I'm hoping someone has an idea to help us work out a complicated situation in our school this year. A group of 9 Native Speakers have studied together during regular English class time since 3rd grade with a teacher paid for by the parents. The parents have decided not to continue to pay their own teacher ( combination of dissatisfaction with what the teacher did last year and financial considerations and also a desire to make the school fulfill their obligation to educate their children.) and now these children are in a very large "higher level" class that has serious discipline problems and a history of rocky English studies. The lower level students are being taught in a smaller class to help them catch up. The class is using Highlights. The questions are: Should we choose a different book/book for these Native Speakers? They have a wide range of abilities in reading and writing. Is it reasonable to assume the teacher will be able to teach this class successful with two different books? I think we could we have the Native Speakers work on writing skills using Highlights as their focal point but taking it to a higher level. But I am not comfortable telling them to buy the book since the reading level is too easy for some of them. How can one teacher manage to help anybody when she has to spread herself so thin and deal with discipline at the same time. Am I right in assuming that our main goal should be to teach the main class body? It's great that these kids have vocal and active parents who know how to make their concerns known but what about all the other children whose parents are quietly trusting us to educate their children. We have a meeting Sunday night with the parents of the Native speakers to discuss how to handle this situation. Thanks for helping us solve this problem. Mara momara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####