tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post8595428686874689972..comments2024-03-19T07:30:55.288-04:00Comments on Curmudgeon: Arizona Improves its Teacher CorpsCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323026187622872114noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-81386190177304011842010-05-15T22:54:04.930-04:002010-05-15T22:54:04.930-04:00I quite agree with you both that knowledge of Engl...I quite agree with you both that knowledge of English is necessary, and that it's idiotic to penalize people for accents. Plenty of people with foreign accents speak excellent English, and few people can learn second languages as adults or even teens without retaining portions of their native accents.<br /><br />Actually we all have accents--only when we speak our native tongues, we speak the accent of the majority and no one seems to notice.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-49770998677753781192010-05-15T17:52:20.465-04:002010-05-15T17:52:20.465-04:00There's interesting academic work on the confl...There's interesting academic work on the conflicts and difficulties engendered when New England, Mid Atlantic and Midwestern teachers went south with readers written with New England accents in mind after the Civil War. The differences in vowels caused special difficulties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com