Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
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Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
Tonight's silly news. A US teacher who does not only not speak Spanish, but also fails to comprehend English.
Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
A Florida teacher who speaks no Spanish is suing her employer for discrimination, after the school rejected her for a job that required teaching an hour of Spanish per day.
Third grade teacher Tracy Rosner filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit against the Miami-Dade County School Board, claiming that her race – white – prevented her from getting the job.
After a decade of working at Coral Reef Elementary, Rosner requested last year to teach reading and language arts to students in the Extended Foreign Language (EFL) program, a track that allows students to learn a language other than English for an hour per day.
The school rejected her request because it requires that reading and language arts instructors of the EFL program speak Spanish, said the lawsuit.
Rosner’s lawyers said she was denied the job “because of her race and national origin as a Non-Hispanic individual who was not a fluent and native Spanish-speaker.”
Rosner said the school could have given her the position and had another instructor teach the Spanish component...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ching-post
Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
A Florida teacher who speaks no Spanish is suing her employer for discrimination, after the school rejected her for a job that required teaching an hour of Spanish per day.
Third grade teacher Tracy Rosner filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit against the Miami-Dade County School Board, claiming that her race – white – prevented her from getting the job.
After a decade of working at Coral Reef Elementary, Rosner requested last year to teach reading and language arts to students in the Extended Foreign Language (EFL) program, a track that allows students to learn a language other than English for an hour per day.
The school rejected her request because it requires that reading and language arts instructors of the EFL program speak Spanish, said the lawsuit.
Rosner’s lawyers said she was denied the job “because of her race and national origin as a Non-Hispanic individual who was not a fluent and native Spanish-speaker.”
Rosner said the school could have given her the position and had another instructor teach the Spanish component...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ching-post
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Re: Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
I bet this guy can speak Spanish:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-pierre-kon ... ar-1572584
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-pierre-kon ... ar-1572584
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Re: Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
she should try teaching in Cambodia, they let anyone do it
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Re: Teacher who can't speak Spanish sues after failing to get Spanish teaching post.
Just like the UK allows any idiot to run the government , right, jamie?
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