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anyone else see/hear about arizona passing a new law today about not allowing teachers with "heavy" accents to continue teaching in arizona public schools?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?stor…
pretty f-ing crazy…
@brent
I'll be the first to say that even in college I hated the classes that I couldn't understand a g-d word the teacher said. "Supposedly" they could speak better English than I, but it doesn't matter when you can't understand them. Maybe there are some psychological differences in younger children and their ability to learn from such individuals, but I had to basically go the independent study route to get through some of those classes.
Now for a completely ignorant statement (or is it): "If you don't have the looks to be a model, you shouldn't be a model. If you don't have the ability to communicate clearly through verbalization, you shouldn't be an English teacher."
@tony
uh….then I guess goes to George Bush who should have never been president? As seeing how he said things like:
1. “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
2. “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” –Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
3. “Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” –Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000
I suggest that for a nation who votes someone who speaks like that into presidency, can afford to have teachers who may have a “heavy accent”.
@tony, arizona board of ed, et al.
There is no clear way to judge or quantify the 'heaviness' of a person's accent. Again, we have a law that demands implementing a 'gut feeling' approach to weeding out the undesirables. On top of that, English is basically the defacto common language throughout most of the world, so we had better get used to hearing people with different accents speaking English. It's simply not "our" language to protect and keep pure. The law undercuts an Arizona teenagers ability to mature into a tolerant and capable member of the global society. In short: Nuts to that, I say!
AND! AND! The whole idea is fucked up, because WE ALL HAVE ACCENTS! There is no "neutral" form of any language, unless arbitrarily imposed by social prestige. No matter who you are, if you're speaking a language, you have an accent. Are they going to let people teach English if they are from the deep South? What about Rochester? West Virginia? Boston? Queens? (hint: you can teach if you're white)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rC43dvbws
What if a sitting English teacher has a sudden case of foreign accent syndrome?
@tony
i can see the point you are making with your model analogy, and i actually had a professor in college from india who had an extremely thick accent (who was one of my favorites), but don't you think it is up to the arizona board of ed. (or whoever hires their teachers) to decide on a case by case basis who is qualified to teach and who isn't? just having an accent doesn't make you unqualified to teach. and having a blanket law like this is ridiculous.
like the author of the piece on npr said…would Einstein have made a better baker (or any other profession) just because of his accent?
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