Obama’s DOJ Protecting Teachers With Unacceptable English Skills, Says Singling Them Out Is a Form Of Discrimination…
It’s almost like the Obama administration is pandering to Hispanic voters at the expense of our children’s education.
(Judicial Watch) — Public school teachers with unacceptable English pronunciation and grammar are being protected by the Obama Administration, which has forced one state to eliminate a fluency monitoring program created to comply with a 2002 federal education law.
Singling out teachers who can’t speak proper English in American schools — funded by taxpayers, no less — discriminates against Hispanics and others who are not native English speakers, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). As a result it violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the teachers must remain in their current position.
Unbelievable as this may seem, it’s a true story reported this week by Arizona’s largest newspaper. Ironically, the state launched the fluency monitoring program to comply with the bipartisan-backed No Child Left Behind Act, which requires states to create standardized tests that show public school students are reaching proficiency in core subjects like English, math and science.
With only a small proportion of low-English proficiency students (reading between the lines they are referring to illegal immigrants) passing the state’s standardized reading test, Arizona education officials started to look at the teachers in those classrooms. They found a common thread in dozens of districts throughout the state; many instructors don’t speak proper English and, in fact, teach in Spanish, using Spanish-language materials. Some have “unacceptably heavy accents” that causes them to mispronounce words. Others use poor English grammar.
Here are some examples of state monitoring reports listed in the article; a teacher who asked her English learners “How do we call it in English?” and teachers who pronounced “levels” as “lebels” and “much” as “mush.” Last year a monitor documented teachers who pronounced “the” as “da” and “lives here” as “leeves here.”
Protected by the power of their union, no teachers have been fired for fluency issues. They have simply been reassigned and districts are required to develop “corrective-action plans” to improve their English. However a group of teachers took their case to the feds last year, complaining that their accents were getting them removed from classrooms.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 10:48 am | 
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Politics and unions have destroyed the educational system in this country, and I doubt it will ever recover.
Educate we much.
Clark Narkulis says:
September 13, 2011 at 11:01 am
Educate we much.
That would be “mush” .
No surprise that Neal Boortz has said our public school teachers are more dangerous than the Taliban. The Taliban may affect one generation, teachers affect multiple generations.
Something is wrong with America when a classroom has a “No speak English” sign on the door.
Improper English? Wot do joo mean??
I had a couple of classes in college where the “professor” could barely speak English. About 10 minutes into the first day, I walked out of the class and promptly dropped it and transferred to another class, same subject, better language skills.
Point – my money (and parents) being spent for a crappy learning experience and we would not put up with it.
Same thing applies in this article. It’s my (our) tax dollars paying for these teachers….#1 MINIMUM requirement MUST be proficiency of English.
There’s a *Cheech & Chong* joke in here somewhere…
End bilinguialism get ourselves out of the UNITED NATIONS
This has already been done in Lowell Mass. where the Supreme Judicial Court of The People’s Republic of Mass. ruled teachers who failed fluency tests couldn’t be fired.
http://www.eagletribune.com/latestnews/x500180000/Court-Lowell-can-t-fire-teacher-for-failing-English-tests
This is why I call Massachusetts the Progressive Petry Dish. They think it up in Berkely or Cambridge & then use Mass. to carry out their lab experiment.
Funny, here in the U.S. they deserve protection. In Mexico they deserve to be killed with illegal guns that the DOJ shipped in, which by the way is an act of war.
And these ‘teachers’ were hired to teach ingles to non-citizens.
Don’t kid yourself, it’s not about education. It’s about Union jobs. Union jobs = dues = $$$ Dem party.
Teachers? They can be bad enough at times, but you ought to hear some of the administrators try (or not) to maintain number and person agreement in nouns and pronouns.
It all ways amase me when I read some of this stuff I wonder really about how many of these people realy went to school. We have one case and you make it sound like every teacher can not speak english. This is typical right wing Bull. My wife was a teacher and and spent twenty years in it and was well like by all and was a teacher people want to send the child to. Our country is full of teacher like my wife but the the right is after the teacher union and that means all teacher a bad. With out unon most of you would still be working for a company and living in there houseing and getting payed little or nothing. I don’t know if it is possible but think be for you talk and check out the truth not the right wding bull. I can not belive that a catholic group can be led so easyly
Please tell me that diatribe of misspelling and utter nonsense was intentionally typed that way.