Arizona Bans Teachers with Accents (school, college, law)

[KarmaPhx]

I don't see how anyone can honestly oppose this law, would you want your child to suffer because he cannot understand what is being taught?

[jimmyev]

Does this include that awful Cajun accent? I can't understand a word spoken by anyone from Lafayette. And then there's Arkansas and Deep East Texas. Those folks in South Carolina have a horribly thick accent. And West Virginia too. Guess they won't be teaching English in Arizona.

[las vegas drunk]

I used to have a teacher who taught algebra in high school who was only 25 years old and extremely hot. It was distracting to us male students. I think next they should ban attractive teachers.

[Boompa]

These teachers were specially recruited, some from other countries, because of their ability to teach in spanish. They willl sue and win. Arizona spends more money on Lawyers than governing

[KarmaPhx]

Originally Posted by Boompa

These teachers were specially recruited, some from other countries, because of their ability to teach in spanish. They willl sue and win. Arizona spends more money on Lawyers than governing

The law is regarding those who teach English, not Spanish.

[Boompa]

Originally Posted by KarmaPhx

The law is regarding those who teach English, not Spanish.

These Teachers were recruited to teach in Spanish, it was a special program the STATE OF ARIZONA had. That is why they willl sue and win, again.

[KarmaPhx]

Originally Posted by Boompa

These Teachers were recruited to teach in Spanish, it was a special program the STATE OF ARIZONA had. That is why they willl sue and win, again.

Where does it say it specifically targets teachers brought here to teach in Spanish?

[crazyme4878]

Originally Posted by Squab

Sounds fair to me. I remember when my son was going to Central Mich. University years ago. A professor he had had a very small grasp on the English language. You would think if you had English speaking students, you'd want professors that could at least speak the language well enough to make known to his students what the hell he was trying to conveigh...... But no......I imagine the university had a quota of foreigners they were required to hire.....Only a guess.......

Well, for starters, it is "convey."

I am anxiously awaiting to hear how they are planning to enforce this law. The "far right" has been trying to put fear into the country with the rhetoric that the current administration is attempting to turn the country into a socialist one. Yet lately, Arizona has been passing (or attempting to pass) legislation that seems to be going too far. I'm not saying that the issues aren't there. They are. However, the news has been reading more and more like that of Germany in the 1930s.

[LaDominadora]

They didn't say no accents they said "heavy" accents. I can relate. America is actually very generous in providing bilingual services compared to other nations - industrial and non-industrial. You can't teach English if you can't really enuciate correctly. I don't know why it wasn't a requirement beforehand.

I am a government employee in California who has to work with a large customer base all day long and we are severely understaffed (as are most government offices in Cali). It is one thing to have an accent but a heavy almost unintelligible accent is quite another especially when you have a long line of angry taxpayers waiting to be serviced.

And it is not just targeted at immigrants. There are some Americans who have heavy accents or have never learned to enuciate correctly. I am an African-American, the product of "ghetto" schools that still taught the student body correct enuciation if they wanted to make it in the outside world. That is not racism, that is a fact. I am planning to relocate to Brazil and over there it's either speak the language perfectly or bring a translator (at your own expense) and I don't blame them. In Rome do as the Romans do so to speak. I don't want to be a burden on my host country so I am learning to "enuciate, enuciate, enuciate" and if all else fails, hire a translator.

[nose1]

wow u guys now those teachers dont have a job and in these times it tough to find a job imagine you were in that situtation have some sympathy for those teaches THERES NO MORE PEACE IN THIS WORLD!!!