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Patrick - Imagine your PE teacher trying to push you to Olympic gold. Not everyt person in PE class is going to become a professional athlete. Not every student in art class will become a painter. Those that have those dreams and ambitions will seek out the support they need to accomplish their goals.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't have PE class because everyone isn't going to go pro, nor does it mean we shouldn't have art class because they won't all be painters. We shouldn't cancel music because the students aren't going to be professional musicians and we shouldn't expect all our science students to become biologist, rocket scientists and engineers.

I'm not trying to dampen your excitement or anything, but it's OK if they don't all speak at the end and it's not a waste of time is all I want to say.

We are providing an educational foundation for students via EFL classes. The goal is not that every student learn to speak but to provide a decent foundation for further studies for those that will need to go on learning English in higher education, privately or abroad in an ESL environment.

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An internatiuonal school in Tokyo would be the "ESL bubble" in an EFl environment that you were asking about. Japanese students that go to these schools but aren't completely fluent in English would attend ESL classes or have ESL support.