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 don’t even speak French?
The I-Team discovered that’s exactly what is happening at the Houston Independent School District’s Energy Institute High School in the 1800 block of Sampson Street.
Sharonda White’s 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...
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
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.
[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
[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
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.
Join the Foreign Legion. By most accounts it is the quickest way in the world to learn French.
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.
But the Houston Tunnels are cool!
Good one!
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?”
RB is saying she was transferred TO become an inspector over there. Probably some civilian oversight position.
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.
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.
Reminds me of an ant farm.
French with a southern accent: “Bonjour, y’all”
Yep, lol.
In American, many (most?) English teachers don’t know English, either. It’s very sad.
They are cool in the summer but they smell like mold.
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........................
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