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(Public Education) ... French Teacher Fired for Not Being Able to Speak French
KHOU ^ | April 29, 2016 | Jeremy Rogalski, KHOU

Posted on 05/02/2016 8:21:13 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

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To: dfwgator

I’d like a cheese-covered shoe, I’d like to you shove it down my throat and I’d like to massage your grandmother. /Steve Martin


81 posted on 05/02/2016 10:05:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: al_c
Too many coaches are asked to teach other subjects that many of them are not qualified to teach

In many states that's illegal, and can cost the district big time if it's discovered. The problem is that districts too often keep it quiet, and no one is the wiser.

82 posted on 05/02/2016 10:07:06 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: freefdny; dfwgator

[Just pronounce your “r”s like you have a hair ball in the back of your throat when you say merci. You’ll do fine.]

To speak French properly, you have to choke on part of the words. Help him! Help him! He tried to speak French!!! /Steve Martin


83 posted on 05/02/2016 10:08:28 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: dfwgator

[but it’s been a humbling experience so far]

Just wait until 3 or 5 of your classmates have to screw in a light bulb. /rimshot


84 posted on 05/02/2016 10:09:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: MUDDOG

But it’s funny, it’s like it’s all right there, ready to use almost. I have a pretty good French vocabulary. If I went to France or a French speaking country, I’d be speaking French or a combination almost immediately.


85 posted on 05/02/2016 10:09:54 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: DogByte6RER

Join the Foreign Legion. By most accounts it is the quickest way in the world to learn French.


86 posted on 05/02/2016 10:10:27 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m not doubting your veracity - I do believe you have honestly recounted what you were told.

I do, however, doubt the veracity of the story itself. USDA is not charged with inspecting missile components.


87 posted on 05/02/2016 10:20:22 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: SaveFerris

88 posted on 05/02/2016 10:20:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sequoyah101

But the Houston Tunnels are cool!


89 posted on 05/02/2016 10:24:48 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: dfwgator

Good one!


90 posted on 05/02/2016 10:27:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: ichabod1

I went for a summer course to the University of Muenster, (what a joke)in 1974. I was pretty well familiar with French from 2 years high school and three to almost four years in VN. I do not speak Duetsch (German). I was always told French is pretty well known throughout Europe. I got in a taxi one night and ‘ Ou es the de la ???whatever I was looking for?” The taxi driver looked over his shoulder and said “Don’t you f’ng speak English?”


91 posted on 05/02/2016 10:28:40 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: PAR35; Red Badger

RB is saying she was transferred TO become an inspector over there. Probably some civilian oversight position.


92 posted on 05/02/2016 10:29:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Fresh Wind

I had a smoking hot French teacher (from France) in college. She ended up dating the roommate of my best friend and they got married.


93 posted on 05/02/2016 10:36:59 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I took a refresher course in French at a college in Atlanta before going on a trip to Europe. One evening the instructor told me that I spoke French with a southern accent. I laughed and said “this is the south”, but she replied that she meant my original teacher, back in college, must have been from the south of France.


94 posted on 05/02/2016 10:42:43 AM PDT by kalee
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To: higgmeister

Reminds me of an ant farm.


95 posted on 05/02/2016 10:43:35 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: kalee

French with a southern accent: “Bonjour, y’all”


96 posted on 05/02/2016 10:44:22 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

Yep, lol.


97 posted on 05/02/2016 10:48:01 AM PDT by kalee
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To: DogByte6RER

In American, many (most?) English teachers don’t know English, either. It’s very sad.


98 posted on 05/02/2016 10:49:27 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: higgmeister

They are cool in the summer but they smell like mold.


99 posted on 05/02/2016 10:50:27 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Off the NWO)
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To: PAR35

That is true, but as I learned from applying for jobs in the government, an inspector is an inspector, to a bureaucrat. An inspector takes a set of specific criteria and matches them to the products they inspect, be they eggs or nuclear warheads. As they were already government employees, they got first crack an any job openings as inspectors anywhere within the government.

This isn’t the only situation where I have seen this. At a company I used to work for, we had a new DCAS in-house inspector replace a retiree we had had for a long time. FWIW, she was female and a minority. We manufactured missile launching systems for the Navy ships and others as well for Air Force aircraft, full of electronics and the like. She didn’t know a resistor from an integrated circuit, but she was the DCAS inspector and she had been transferred from some other location where she had inspected food products. We had lots of problems with her and complained to DCAS superiors, but they couldn’t do any more than sympathize, and tell us she had to have that slot.

A little while later, after I had gotten another job with a different company, I spotted her in a local restaurant having dinner with OUR (D) CONGRESSMAN from our district. Then I knew why........................


100 posted on 05/02/2016 10:51:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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