Posted on 05/02/2016 8:21:13 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
I-Team: French teacher at HISD school doesn't speak French
HOUSTON - How do you teach a French class, if you dont even speak French?
The I-Team discovered thats exactly what is happening at the Houston Independent School Districts Energy Institute High School in the 1800 block of Sampson Street.
Sharonda Whites son Nathanial is a junior at the school.
"I thought it was a joke, I couldn't believe this was happening, White said.
We asked her son about his classroom experience.
I-Team: Does your teacher speak French?
Nathanial White: No sir.
I-Team: Have you ever heard him speak a word of French?
Nathanial White: Bonjour, but everybody knows that.
The teacher, Albert Moyer, said in a brief phone interview that the extent of his French education was just one year in high school.
So why was he hired? To replace Jean Cius, a certified French teacher for more than 25 years.
It makes me extremely mad, Cius said. I feel bad for the fact that the kids are not learning.
Records show after a dispute in December, the school's principal removed Cius from campus.
But when he was later declared fit for duty, HISD did not give him back his old job, or any teaching job for that matter.
Cius was sent to another HISD campus, where he said he was assigned to monitor the halls.
I feel so bad for the taxpayers because they're paying me for not doing anything at all, he said.
However, Nathanial White's report card shows H-I-S-D is still using Cius as the teacher of record.
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I still can’t see a transfer between agencies. There could be a RIF with certain priority rights, but she would still need to post for and qual for the new agency. If the jobs were the same classification, the KSAs would line up, and the priority rights might clear any specific technical shortcomings.
And if she happened to be a veteran AND have re-hire rights, she’d trump about anyone else on the roster, once she made the roster.
I love French. I took it for three years in high school, spent my senior year in France, and later worked as a French translator for three years. I’ve taken a few French classes in college, too.
Unfortunately, it is easy to lose a language if you do not get much practice using it. Few people speak French around here.
Taking college French without any high school French was a bad idea. But then, I’ve had a few.
Let me mention a few gals I thought about marrying......
I had Spanish about 5th or 6th grade. Not much. But I thought, how boring.
Oops.
All I know is that I cannot send my child to public school in Houston. Even the elite/Vanguard programs are located in crummy schools where she would get rub elbows with and be attacked by ghetto children.
It simply is not safe.
So I spend over 10K a year to not use the schools that my tax dollars pay for.
Those who can, do. Those who cant, teach.
I love it when an idiom is demonstrated.
The famous John T. Scopes (defendant in the TN "Monkey Trial" of 1925) was substitute teaching when he agreed to stipulate that he had "taught evolution", even though he had no recollection of mentioning it in class.
His main job? Football coach.
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