I will address ESL...as I have been a tutor for a number of years and am now in a master's program. ESL doesn't exist. To speak of. If ESL was going to be part of a larger program, wouldn't they be creating training programs for ESL teachers? No, they're not. In fact, the training programs that exist are dying like flies. My university has decided not to continue the program. All the professors have gone elsewhere. This program includes certification for existing secondary school teachers. I will have to cobble together the rest of my courses and make my own degree. In all of Florida, I can count on both hands ESL classes for students. And they all use barely trained volunteers. So, forget ESL.

EmmaG

"I believe very deeply that compassion is the route not only for the evolution of the full human being, but for the very survival of the human race." —The Dalai Lama