U.S. teachers face language barriers, student trauma as record migration reaches classrooms


  • World
  • Saturday, 05 Oct 2024

An immigrant student attends first-grade class at the public elementary school in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 25, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

CHARLEROI, Pennsylvania - Dana Smith had been teaching first grade at the public school in the small Pennsylvania town of Charleroi for more than 16 years when she found herself confronting a new challenge last year: a sharp rise in students from Haiti who did not speak English.

She started using a phone app to translate lessons, but the constant pauses for translation frustrated her. She wondered if she was hindering the learning of American students who knew some of the basics she was reviewing, a complaint raised by a vocal segment of parents in the district.

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