New Jersey Teacher Tells Students: Speak 'American' (speech, European, Houston)

[OrganicSmallHome]

Originally Posted by vacoder

NJ teachers enjoy a very overinflated salary and pension due to the strength of their union. I wonder how this teacher would take to the disbanding of the NEA union.

No public school teacher, anywhere in the U.S., enjoys "a very overinflated salary and pension."

[ATG5]

Originally Posted by aquietpath

This is the pugnacious, arrogant attitude that makes many people dislike illegals or immigrants who won't assimilate.

Please.

I know many of them don’t leave their basements or their homogeneous bubbles, but in a city like NYC, Houston, Chicago, etc., there are dozens of foreign languages spoken in public spaces. Italian, Korean, Russian, etc., but Trump supporters don’t complain when it’s European or Eastern Asian people.


They only care when it’s the brown people they’re scared of speaking the foreign languages and not “assimilating”.

[TexasLawyer2000]

Originally Posted by OrganicSmallHome

No public school teacher, anywhere in the U.S., enjoys "a very overinflated salary and pension."

That's not true at all. There are many teachers that make more than market value.

[whogo]

Actually American is quite a different language than English.

[BigCityDreamer]

Originally Posted by ATG5

Please.

I know many of them don’t leave their basements or their homogeneous bubbles, but in a city like NYC, Houston, Chicago, etc., there are dozens of foreign languages spoken in public spaces. Italian, Korean, Russian, etc., but Trump supporters don’t complain when it’s European or Eastern Asian people.


They only care when it’s the brown people they’re scared of speaking the foreign languages and not “assimilating”.

There’s something to be said in support of the fact that Spanish-speaking students in America tend to have lower overall test scores than students who speak the other languages you mentioned.

Significantly less than English-speaking white American students.

[ATG5]

Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer

There’s something to be said in support of the fact that Spanish-speaking students in America tend to have lower overall test scores than students who speak the other languages you mentioned.

Significantly less than English-speaking white American students.

Your "fact" has no relevance to my post or the point of the discussion...so...?


Thanks anyways.

[dechatelet]

Originally Posted by OrganicSmallHome

No public school teacher, anywhere in the U.S., enjoys "a very overinflated salary and pension."

Wrong.

Here in San Diego, it is common for teachers make $90,000 a year and retire early, collecting their full pay -- adjusted upwards for inflation -- for the rest of their lives.

$10,000 a month for 9 months of work -- not bad.

[Bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by whogo

Actually American is quite a different language than English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej7ZEnjSeA

Yes we must all strive to learn the American language !

[Oldglory]

Originally Posted by TexasLawyer2000

This only makes sense of the students in the classroom primarily speak another language. Which may be the case in several regions.

And that foreign language would be Spanish, right? And yet we are told that Spanish speakers are assimilating into our society.

[skins_fan82]

Some of the comments in here are pathetic. So many hateful and nasty people out there in this country. They hate anything that's different from them.