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The document describes an uncomfortable experience the author had on their last day of practice teaching at a school in Chile. They spoke with a student who said she may fail English and when asked why, she told a troubling story - that she lives in a shelter, her mother is pregnant by her boyfriend who had sexually abused her. The author did not know how to respond and had doubts about the story. They advised the student to study hard and not repeat her mother's mistakes. The author questions whether the story was true or an attempt to manipulate them, and how they should have responded if it was true.

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Assignment 1 David

The document describes an uncomfortable experience the author had on their last day of practice teaching at a school in Chile. They spoke with a student who said she may fail English and when asked why, she told a troubling story - that she lives in a shelter, her mother is pregnant by her boyfriend who had sexually abused her. The author did not know how to respond and had doubts about the story. They advised the student to study hard and not repeat her mother's mistakes. The author questions whether the story was true or an attempt to manipulate them, and how they should have responded if it was true.

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Assignment 1

The event that I remember the most and made me a little uncomfortable, was my
last day of practice (vise I) in the LICEO COMERCIAL DE QUILPUÉ, in a segundo
medio class.
The class was almost finished, but before that, I wanted to talk to small groups of students
about their impressions and their performance in this English course. Their response were
varied and I understood why a lot of them didn’t like or simply didn’t care about learning
English.

In one of those groups, I talked to a girl, whose name I can´t remember right now,
and when I asked her if she had passed or not the course she reply that she wasn´t sure but
she thought that she might not have the sufficient grade and would have to do it again next
year.
I asked her why and that´s when she started to tell me her problems. First she said that she
don’t live at home, she lives in “Refugio de Cristo “, then she told me that her mother, who
is in her forties, was pregnant and the last thing she said was that her mother´s boyfriend
had sexually abused her.
In that moment I didn’t know how to react or even what to say to her and I also started de
have my doubt about her story. It may sound cruel but I didn’t know her very well and the
thing that struck me the most was the fact that she told me all that very openly and she said,
after telling her story if I could talk to her English teacher to see if I can persuade her to do
another test to improve their grade.

After a brief moment I reply to her and I said that she must try to let go of the past
and look forward and in order to have a good life in the future and not to make the same
mistakes that her mother did she would have to study very hard in order to live a good life.

I know it seems like a very cliché phrase to say but in this moment I couldn´t think
of anything else.

1) How could I know if the story is true or am I being manipulated?

There is no way to know that as an outsider but if I were her the actual English teacher I
could have judge the situation in a better way.

2) If her situation of being sexually abused by her mother´s boyfriend had been true,
how should I have reacted?

If that were the case, I think the best thing to do is to talk immediately to her guardian and
the principal of the school to see what are the most suitable things to do in this case.

3) If all that story is true, why doesn’t she tells it to her teacher and decide to tell it to
me?

I think it is easier, sometimes, to talk to someone that you know you wont see everyday and
more so when she knew that this was my last day of vise I. It was maybe an attempt of
manipulation or she truly wanted to tell her problems to someone other then an authority
figure.

David Guerra Salazar

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