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 ...
“Perhaps this teacher Albert Moyer “identifies” as completely French, you haters! ;-)”
So, which bathroom does that enable him to use?
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
I love it when an idiom is demonstrated.
But Houston is a corrupt city run by affirmative action. Houston proper is not conservative at all. It is quite liberal and very democrat.
Texas is conservative only by the slimmest margin. Dallas, Houston, Fort Worthless, Austin, Salmontonio are all blue liberal democrat strongholds and becoming more blue by the day. Each of those cities is run by “minorities” who are minority in name only and a majority in the cities.
As I’ve noted, Houston will be Detroit in 10 years.
Best calculus teacher I had hardly spoke any English, he just worked problem after problem on the board step by step until you got it.
I despised those instructors that spent much of their class time describing the philosophy of how to approach equations and hardly worked any equations at all.
Unions are optional in Texas and are generally powerless here.
Excellent!!!
I started learning Dutch with Duolingo since it came free on my computer, and I thought it would be fun to try a non-Latin language for a change.
Then I discovered that I need to learn some Korean, not Dutch. So I bought a Korean disc set... and have hardly any time to use it. And I plan to go to Korea in just a few months.
I think I’m learning Korean just from all of the KDramas I’ve been watching.
You give it 10 years?! I pray it lasts that long!
The Teachers Union. Gotta love it. No on prop 123 in AZ BTW!
Press one for English!!!
Unions are optional in Texas and are generally powerless here.
Even teacher’s unions?
How about trying to learn differential calculus when the foreign-born teaching assistant is unintelligible in English? Common at universities.
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I had to learn differential equations (a bit harder than diff calc) from a Polish lady who’s English was limited to “yes...yes?...yes?...”.
I decided to be a Masochist and do Polish. I did know some Polish before, but it’s been a humbling experience so far.
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.
Trying to actually learn something, when you're just trying to figure out what the teacher is saying, vs figuring out what you're supposed to learn.
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