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Post by kristine on Sept 22, 2011 1:45:13 GMT -5
I just gotta like this....
...I want to work for this school. I really do...
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Post by Deimos on Sept 22, 2011 1:48:30 GMT -5
And this one reason why Aussies have a tendency to kick all the asses
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Post by MaybeNever on Sept 22, 2011 1:50:11 GMT -5
I was fairly amused until that last line about a foreign language. I despise xenophobia.
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Post by priestling on Sept 22, 2011 1:50:38 GMT -5
This is amazing and I'm spreading it around to all the teachers I know... including my own dad. He's going to laugh his ass off.
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Sept 22, 2011 1:51:22 GMT -5
Fucking brilliant!
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Post by Jodie on Sept 22, 2011 1:59:20 GMT -5
So freaking awesome!
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Sept 22, 2011 2:28:28 GMT -5
I was fairly amused until that last line about a foreign language. I despise xenophobia. This. |
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Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Sept 22, 2011 2:28:47 GMT -5
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Post by servo on Sept 22, 2011 2:38:37 GMT -5
I was fairly amused until that last line about a foreign language. I despise xenophobia. Well... the guy who added that did want to make the message uniquely Australian. *puts on flame-proof suit* |
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Post by Kit Walker on Sept 22, 2011 12:14:54 GMT -5
Know what? Never mind. I don't feel like getting into fights today.
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Post by N. De Plume on Sept 22, 2011 12:19:08 GMT -5
There are between 3,000 and 8,000 different languages on the planet. Should all public schools and businesses be required to keep 3,000-8,000 interpreters on staff just in case? Are all 8,000 languages spoken on a single school district? Should an immigrant put up with a barely veiled “Fuck off!” just because he or she is not yet fluent in the local language? |
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Post by brendanrizzo on Sept 22, 2011 12:37:55 GMT -5
I was fairly amused until that last line about a foreign language. I despise xenophobia. Well... the guy who added that did want to make the message uniquely Australian. *puts on flame-proof suit* Oh, hypocrisy. So xenophobia is fine when people who aren't American do it? I am 100% convinced that had none of you heard this message in its original context, and that if I had changed all references from Australia to the United States, every single one of you would be raising hell over the xenophobia, but since Aussies do it, they get a free pass. Their reputation for being badass isn't even deserved. But of course, protests are only ever OK when people are protesting the United States... there was worldwide protest over Troy Davis, yet there is not a single protest at all the crimes against humanity commited daily by China and the Middle East, and other authoritarian dictatorships. Conversely, there were absolutely no cracks about the flaws in Australia's education system over the fact that most of their students do not attend school, yet if this were an American broadcast there would be legions of you people claiming yet another opportunity to say that the U.S. education system is the worst one on Earth. Can you say double standard? |
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Post by anon87311 on Sept 22, 2011 13:07:24 GMT -5
I, for one, am all for the line about speaking another language. why? because if you can't speak english in a place where it's really the main spoken language, then you have bigger problems then your kid failing. does it offend some people? probably. I think that people that come to the US to live should have a good grasp of english. If you don't, well, better learn quick.
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Post by MaybeNever on Sept 22, 2011 13:12:23 GMT -5
I, for one, am all for the line about speaking another language. why? because if you can't speak english in a place where it's really the main spoken language, then you have bigger problems then your kid failing. does it offend some people? probably. I think that people that come to the US to live should have a good grasp of english. If you don't, well, better learn quick. Yeah, people living in desperate poverty or fleeing tyrannical murderous regimes should get their fucking acts together before they come over here. Let's punish the kid by not helping their parents, that will teach them. |
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Post by Yaezakura on Sept 22, 2011 15:32:08 GMT -5
To be fair, the government can't really supply every school with a translator for every language someone who happens to move into the neighborhood happens to speak. And if they've been in the country long enough for their kids to be fluent enough in the local language to effectively attend class, there's no real excuse for the parents to not be fluent enough to communicate with the staff.
Here in Florida, I see that all the time with Spanish speaking families--the kids were born here, and speak English better than Spanish, but the parents can't speak it any better than someone who just jumped the fence. After 15 years.
When you've been here that long and still rely on your kids to translate everything because you're too lazy/proud/whatever to learn the local language, the fault is on you, not on the people who don't have time to cater to your bullshit. And that's true no matter what country you're in.
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