What's a school nurse?

Gawd, California's education system sucks!

My newest student arrived from El salvador two weeks ago. Speaks not a word of English. I can read Spanish (years of Latin and French), but speak it or comprehend when it's spoken?!

Explain to me how I'm suppose to teach her about positive and negative integers and using data to construct an equation, which she'll then plot on a coordinate grid. Yeah - that's what I was teaching my class when she arrived. And yes it is a 5th grade standard according to some idiot who works for the government.

Luckily she's a sweet girl and we're muddling along. I have a bilingual student who acts as translator. They both enjoy my awful attempts at Spanish.

V.