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 ...
Or, more generally, on too many ludicrously overpaid administrators and bloated, corrupt procurement contracts.
Students, repeat after me: “Je Suis Une Imbecile!”
CC
Funny how they don’t fire anybody for being a history or economics teacher when they don’t know history or economics.
When I attended public high school in the early 70s, all my French teachers were so excellent that I even began to use phonetics to sound out unknown words in French. When I first traveled to Europe, it was I who read all the menus and all the road signs for my family. How sad for these kids today. French is a wonderful language.
"Bonjour, you cheese eating surrender monkeys!"
How about trying to learn differential calculus when the foreign-born teaching assistant is unintelligible in English? Common at universities.
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?
Indeed!
Mitigated somewhat by the fact that even the native English-speaking math teachers are bad.
Sounds like M. Cius gave up without much of a fight. Clearly, he is the rightful french teacher. But I repeat myself.
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.
Maybe he should try Duolingo, like I did.
I took a German class in Community College during a summer session from a lady who was an East German refugee.
She really hated the GDR.
Ugh...
“ces écoles vont employer” should have been “ces écoles vont-elles employer.”
Not that I expect many FReepers to catch that!
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