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Old 05-05-2010, 03:29 PM
 
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"The arbitrator ... made a factual finding that the school committee failed to meet its burden of establishing that Robishaw could not speak English fluently," Justice Margot Botsford wrote for the court in the unanimous ruling. "We are bound by this determination."

First, therefore, we need to establish whether she can or cannot speak English.
Eengrish?
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Old 05-06-2010, 10:08 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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I'd have to listen to her convey.

"Fluency" with first graders?

I had a federal judge yell angrily at me one time, "You're very fluent in English"!

I guess I had demonstrated that I knew of at least 1,000 ways of expressing the message, FU, without ever using those words.

"Fluency" with first graders? And? Wouldn't it be nice to have people who are fluent in English teaching first graders?
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Old 05-06-2010, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Most of my Electrical Engineering professors could barely speak english, some were pretty excellent.

There's just a liiiiiiitle bit of a difference between teaching first graders vs. teaching college students.
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Old 05-06-2010, 10:14 AM
 
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"Fluency" with first graders? And? Wouldn't it be nice to have people who are fluent in English teaching first graders?
I doubt if you can find many teachers in the South who don't constantly use the word "axe" every time they ask a student to ask for permission to use the restroom.
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Old 05-06-2010, 10:19 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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Eengrish?
I see no need to make this kind of offensive comment.
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Old 05-07-2010, 03:42 AM
 
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I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it in print. Film at 11....


Court: Lowell Can't Fire Teacher Phanna Kem Robishaw For English Tests - wbztv.com (http://wbztv.com/local/lowell.teacher.english.2.1675170.html - broken link)
I had a chinese professor teaching chemistry with an accent so horrible no one understood a word. I don't get why they'd hire anyone who can't speak properly. Take voice coaching lessons please. A teacher shouldn't be the one thing in the way of education.
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Old 05-07-2010, 05:30 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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I doubt if you can find many teachers in the South who don't constantly use the word "axe" every time they ask a student to ask for permission to use the restroom.

reaching....keep on reaching
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Old 05-07-2010, 05:45 AM
 
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I see no need to make this kind of offensive comment.
Your comment is conclusory, and if left to stand, demonstrates the severe limitation of your vision.

Could be a case of mental myopia.

Help is available.

Techfocus Media :: Managing Mental Myopia
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Old 05-07-2010, 05:53 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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It's a funny thing. Here we are, a couple of days after it was pointed out that the original post falsifies the true story, and neither the OP nor anyone else who is so outraged by what happened has been willing to correct the record or to respond to what the actual facts are.
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Old 05-07-2010, 06:07 AM
 
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I had a chinese professor teaching chemistry with an accent so horrible no one understood a word. I don't get why they'd hire anyone who can't speak properly. Take voice coaching lessons please. A teacher shouldn't be the one thing in the way of education.
They are just weeding out those who can't "pick it up" from the textbook.

I think the belief is, that if you can't pick it up on your own, you have already failed.
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