Jesus Christ, here we go

WTF Arizona?! I didn't know Hitler was the Secretary of Education down there. S***, glad I don't live there.

.........they are kidding right?............... right?

Well, if they can't speak english properly, or in an understandable manner, they certainly shouldn't be teaching it. Should we allow the obese to be phyical education instructors? Should we allow people who don't know math past a 5th grade level teach high school algebra?

I had to drop a college english course once because the professor was heavily accented, and about half the class dropped as well.

I don't care about the ethnicity or skin color, but either you can speak and teach english, or you can't.

While the banning of ethnic studies doesn't really make sense to me, I don't understand why it was there in the first place. It seems more like a college course to me.

I agree with THE Double J. I mean how are these kids going to learn properly when the teacher can't speak it properly?!?

You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.

How are we to decide how one person says a word over another? Who is to say what is ungrammatical? What about people who speak "regular English" - whatever that is defined as - but just pronounce things differently? I had a teacher in 11th grade who is full-on American, but pronounces Florida "Flor-ee-da." Does that mean that her pronunciation of Florida is "ungrammatical" and she must be removed from the class? No. I don't even agree with the accented English. People cannot help how they speak. Is that to say that we shouldn't allow a British male or female to teach an English class, because according to the standards presented, that is heavily accented. Or what about a Spanish teacher who speaks in English as well? That will be the next step. "You're accent is way too heavy to be speaking in English. You must leave the class of study that you spent countless hours in getting a degree for to teach. You now have a degree that you cannot use."

I shudder to think about what some of the inner-city schools would be forced to do with their teachers.

i wish they'd do that over here, for 3 years i was stuck with a really heavily indian accented Math teacher, i hardly learnt anything in those years as i, and a load of people in my class, couldn't understand a word he was saying.
and the head of the school didnt do anything because he was scared of being called out on racial discrimination terms.

My wife and I are both white, small-town Northeastern people and we speak clear English with a rural Pennsylvania-upstate New York accent. We now live in a very ethnically diverse part of Florida.

Our son (now 5 years old) has attended daycare-preschool since he was a few months old. He's had about 10 teachers in the past 3 years. One had a thick Indian accent. Several of them were originally from Haiti, Dominican Republic, or Jamaica and had very thick accents. Only one of his teachers spoke English with an accent anywhere close to our family's. Mind you, he spent five days a week with these teachers during the crucial years where he was learning to speak and pronounce things.

You know what he sounds like today when he speaks? His parents. There's only one word he pronounces any different from the way I do, and it could just as easily be a developmental thing as opposed to an issue with his teacher's different accents.

I admit I was a bit skeptical at first, wondering if my son would come home from school pronouncing things wrong. But this experience cured me of that fear. Not only were the teachers doing their jobs well, but in the end, my son still spent more time listening to me speak than he did any of his teachers. So it ended up being a non-issue.

What's right? Should someone with a southern accent not teach, should someone with a Boston accent not teach because they don't have the right accent?