More Craziness from Arizona: No Ethnic Studies, No English Teachers with Accents

Image from source, Huffington Post


And the craziness from Arizona just keeps coming. I've got to say, this no English teachers with accents thing could be a real problem.  What about teachers from Louisiana, Maine, Alabama or Kentucky? Some American accents are almost impenetrable to people not from those regions. Under these rules, George W. Bush couldn't be an English teacher. Or Sarah Palin, also.

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Arizona Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, Teachers With Accents Can No Longer Teach English

Arizona's new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state's new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of "crime. . ."

Read more at: Huffington Post

Thanks to my friend Tracy for the link.

"English Only" Conference Has English Problem

One thing I've figured out--at least in online correspondence--if you pick on someone's grammar, you'll probably make a grammatical error while doing so. If you complain about their punctuation, you'll forget an apostrophe somewhere. If you call somebody an idiot, you'll mistype something that makes you look stupid.

So if you're holding a conference to support English as the only official language, it might be best to proofread your banner. . .

Source: Joe.My.God.