Students Want Out of Mr. Guaramato’s Class

Learning a foreign language involves the development of four communicative skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In the process of learning those said skills, students may face situations that are quite challenging. They may struggle with language comprehension and the usage of language, both verbally and written. It is likely that difficulty in pronunciation, spelling of words, and accentuations will be a setback for language learners. With so many obstacles already set in front of students as they face the challenges of learning a foreign language, it is important that they have someone to assert discipline. Mount Carmel believes that with discipline, a successful language department is within their reach. 

Unfortunately, there have been handful of students that don’t think similarly to how Mount Carmel administrators do, or up to fulfilling Mount Carmel’s requirements. When a small challenge or obstacle is presented to them they either fold, crumble, or look for a path that requires less effort.  

An investment, such as the betterment of their language department can be beneficial to the success of the school, but not everyone sees it that way. Recently, Mount Carmel has had a phenomenon occur where a huge number of students are requesting to transfer out of Mr. Victor Guaramato’s Spanish class. Twenty-four  transfer request applications from Mr. Victor Guaramato’s Spanish class course to be exact. 

One of the reasons for this is because the students claim that his class is “too demanding.” Students in the halls make complaints about his absurd amount of homework assignments that take 5-7 minutes to complete at most. Also, how Mr. Guaramato’s class consists of  material that is too “advanced” or for “honors classes'' when Mr. Guaramato uses the corresponding book that contains the correct content for each class level, or even of his exceptionally hard one-page multiple choice exams that consist of topics consistently reviewed in class. “Mr. G's tests are crazy man, we literally didn’t learn any of this!  I gotta 39% can you believe that?” Mount Carmel Junior student Victor Guaramato Jr. complained in the hallway. Even his own son thinks so of his exams. 

In the month of February, Victor Guaramato, among other students, combined up to the 48 transfer requests that the counseling department received for the past week. Every report is a transfer request out of Mr. Victor Guaramato’s classroom or other forgoing language classes.  Twice as much as the first rant from earlier this month which doesn’t make any sense noting that Mount Carmel students are required to take two years of a foreign language to graduate from Mount Carmel.  You can’t run from a class like Mr. Victor Guaramato’s class forever.