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"Public school teachers with unacceptable English pronunciation and grammar are being protected by the Obama Administration, which has forced one state to eliminate a fluency monitoring program created to comply with a 2002 federal education law."
They of course will never be fired.
"Protected by the power of their union, no teachers have been fired for fluency issues. They have simply been reassigned and districts are required to develop “corrective-action plans” to improve their English. "
Folks are always whining how we don't have any money for schools. Well no wonder when they gotta teach the teachers how to speak the language to begin with.
DOJ Protects Teachers With Unacceptable English Skills | Judicial Watch (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/sep/doj-protects-teachers-unacceptable-english-skills - broken link)
I had enough trouble trying to figure out what my teacher's from India were saying in engineering school in college. I could only imagine a child trying to learn the language and proper grammer from a teacher who speaks broken english. Not to mention the state was following federal law to begin with but that isn't good enough because according to the DOJ it violates another federal law.
sorry no links but the USA has many high school grads that cant read. I work with many of them on const jobs. always amazing as a Carpenter the laborers are illiterate HS grads or young professionals with biology or English degrees
Those of you who wish to complain about the quality of American public education should take more care with your posts. It's hard to take you seriously when your writing is lacking proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Then again, perhaps you've made a valid point.
Last edited by formercalifornian; 09-15-2011 at 10:28 PM..
Anybody wonder why kids can't read in public schools?
Because their are no lights in public schools?
The public school teachers stole their glasses?
Public schools are a socialist plot to take over 'Merica so reading is forbidden as it may lead to contraband knowledge?
Or did you mean, 'Anybody wonder why kids educated in public schools cannot read?'
Or 'Anybody wonder why public school children can't read?'
*waiting for someone to point out my own grammatical errors
Nice deflection. If you want to take the time and be the grammar nazi have at it. Nobody here is writing a term paper. Just another spin on the topic some are famous for around here it seems. Probably didn't even read the link to begin with. I notice a lot of that too.
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