According to the Aspen Daily News, "A Spanish teacher at Aspen Middle School has been suspended without pay for refusing to administer standardized tests this week, school district officials confirmed Wednesday."
Schools in Colorado are mandated by the state to give Colorado State Aptitude Program exams, and these exams are only in English. In order for all students to take the exams, teachers are required to translate the directions, the questions, and the multiple-choice answers from English to Spanish for students whose first language is not English.
The teacher in question, Sam Esmiol, says that he didn't feel it was right for him to translate the test for a couple of reasons. First, he said that he "feel[s] that each teacher is going to translate the questions and answers differently" and that "each group of students taking the test is getting a slightly different version. There's too much personal influence on the results."
Secondly, he says he is not a trained translator and therefore shouldn't be expected to translate.
It does seem like it is unfair for the students to have each teacher that gives the test provide his or her own personal translation of the directions, answers, and questions. The translations are going to be different among the teachers and those translations very much have the possibility of influencing the students.
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