Thank you for sharing your experiences and reflection on the reading. I like how you beautifully related the dense readings to your personal experiences despite the fact that they were outside the US. Even I, growing up in Rwanda, sometimes it felt like we are chasing language fluency perfection of some sort and the students did not understand what truly is the standard. Is the perfect accent the American or English accent? And I guess to try to answer your questions, exposure is really important. as much as we want to 'shift from asking students to change their language to asking institutions to change their expectations' as you called it, we only think like that after exposure. And I am not sure how to do that when/if the teachers have never left the countries where they practice, or if they have not had enough exposure to be able to encounter the stereotypes that lead them to impose them on their students, for them to decide otherwise and do better.