Involuntary Transfer Appeal Meeting

Introductory Summary: It is a difficult and emotionally charged Involuntary Transfer Appeal Meeting. A 10th grader at La Silla High School is missing many credits and has been found using drugs twice on campus.

Disclaimer:: This text is an original work of fiction based on real scenarios. Any similarities between people or places are purely coincidental.

Participants

Contributors

Author

Romina Espinosa

Co-Author

Ana Soler

Editors

Devin Gilbert

Yohana Imperio

Allison deFreese

Audio Engineer

Omar Mendoza

Voice Actors

Full Summary: It is a difficult and emotionally charged Involuntary Transfer Appeal Meeting. A 10th grader at La Silla High School is missing many credits and has been found using drugs twice on campus. He is accused of using drugs a third time by a school officer who sees him coming out of the school bathroom on his way to third period class. The officer looked him in the eyes and noticed they were irritated and asked him to go to the nurse’s office to get a urine test. The consequence this minor has is an involuntary one-year transfer to a non-traditional setting school if he tests positive for drug use. The school principal explains to the mother he is at risk of being a high school drop-out if measures are not taken now. The student needs to obtain over 50 high school credits to obtain his actual grade level and graduate on time.

Main Challenges: The conversation is difficult for everyone involved: parent, student, principal, and the interpreter. The environment gets very emotional; the parent begins to cry. The interpreter’s role is to deliver the message, stay calm, and utilize a compassionate approach, despite seeing the parent crying when she learns for the first time her son is smoking wax (cannabis) at school.

Key Terminology and Vocabulary

English		español
---	Involuntary Transfer Appeal Meeting	Reunión de apelación de traslado involuntario	---
cannabis	smoking wax	fumar cera	---
---	urine test	examen de orina	prueba de orina
---	principal	director	---
---	loud	fuerte	recio
---	non-traditional setting school	escuela no tradicional	---
---	High School	preparatoria	---
---	homeschool	instrucción casa	---
give it your best	make an effort	échale ganas	---
---	for	pa’l	---
---	pick-up truck	troca	---
---	really	de veritas	---
---	truancy	ausentismo	faltas

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Supplementary Resources: Voluntary and Involuntary Transfer (California Department of Education); Education Code - ECD Article 3. Continuation Classes (California Legislative Information); English-Spanish Glossary for Educational Settings (California Department of Education); English to Spanish Glossary of Educational Terminology (Rodolfo Valentán,Second Edition); Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Educational Interpreters of Spoken Language (Minnesota Department of Education); Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice (National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages)

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