Reminds me of the school in the Ozarks back in the 1960s when it was determined by the state that they had to teach a foreign language. They chose Spanish.
So we had teachers who had NEVER said a word like Tortilla (Tortyah) pronouncing it as Tor-till-a. Heavy on the “till”.
Quelle Horreur!
C’est un scandale. Ces malheureux enfants, qui pensaient qu’ils allaient apprendre le français, dont leur professeur ne parlait pas un mot!
Eh bien, pour faire suivre, ces écoles vont employer des professeurs de calcul qui n’ont pas maîtrisé l’algèbre?
I would bet everything that I own that “affirmative” action is at the heart of this fiasco.
I would also bet the same amount that if you could lift the curtain for a closer look this case would be just minor compared to many others taking place.
The system is corrupt. The inmates are running the assylum. Houston is run by affirmative action prize winners. Houston is becoming Detroit and the decay is accelerating. Wait for it, 10 years and it will fall apart completely.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
I love it when an idiom is demonstrated.
Cius was sent to another HISD campus, where he said he was assigned to monitor the halls.
Someone-s head-s need to roll be it school board or principal or ? (why Jean Cius was fired in the first place)
ready to complete in a global economy.”...And why can’t the opposing side compete using American (sometimes called English)?
I’m not sure that one needs to be able to speak a particular language to be qualified to “teach” it in the manner of instruction used in US public schools. From what I’ve seen, language instruction is just memorization of vocabulary, rules of grammar, conjugations and declensions. There seems to be very little in the way of practical conversation and common usage in the US curriculum for language instruction.
Outrageous!
The teacher is trans-French.
‘Oeuf’ means ‘egg’. ‘Chapeau’ means ‘hat’. It’s like, those French have a different word for everything.” -Steve Martin
I attended high school in Houston in 1970-1971. I took a German course from a black teacher who was also very fluent in French. She had a bit of a twang, but she was fluent in German, I’ll admit. Students called her “The brown Frau from the Black Forest”.
Join the Foreign Legion. By most accounts it is the quickest way in the world to learn French.
In American, many (most?) English teachers don’t know English, either. It’s very sad.