Arizona Goes After Teachers With Accents

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Originally Posted by MissLadyLoki

OK that aside, I'm not a racist by any means, but I agree with that. Right now, I have a precalc professor that's originally from China that can't speak English for her life and with a thick accent on top of it all. Combine that wiht the fact the guy running the math department makes up tests designed to make you fail and that I suck at math, I'm ready to flip out. I mean, I understand having a teacher with an accent (my Spanish teacher for 2 years in high school was originally from Honduras and did have trouble with some words and spoke with an accent), but the problems arise IMO when they can't clearly speak or articulate the language.

This is why I want to know exactly what the word "fluent" in the policy is being defined as. If the example of pronouncing "think" as "tink" is representative, then this policy isn't about making sure that teachers are intelligible, but rather it is just another instance of Arizona creating an us vs. them mentality.