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Sacre Blah: High School French Teacher Speaks No Actual French
I'm sure when you saw Steven Green post this at Instapundit you knew it would be up here in a matter of hours.
Alors, vous avez raison.Sharonda White’s son Nathanial is a junior at the school. "I thought it was a joke, I couldn't believe this was happening,” White said. We asked her son about his classroom experience. I-Team: “Does your teacher speak French?” Nathanial White: “No sir.” I-Team: “Have you ever heard him speak a word of French?” Nathanial White: “Bonjour, but everybody knows that.” The teacher, Albert Moyer, said in a brief phone interview that the extent of his French education was just one year in high school.The district removed its former French teacher and now assigns him to hall duty. The story doesn't say what that dispute was about. This guy, Moyer, is a replacement while they try to find someone qualified. The local news report casts the story as "why is this qualified teacher not in the classroom?" Mais, de mon cote, je voudrais savoir pourquoi cet ancien enseignant s'est vire'.
Nous n'avons besoin d'aucune instruction
Nous n'avons besoin d'aucun contrôle de la pensee
Pas de sombres sarcasmes dans la classe
Professeur laissez les enfants tranquilles
Hey professeur, laisser ces enfants tranquilles
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Tout compte fait tu es simplement une autre brique dans le
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: high school French teacher and model at May 02, 2016 03:38 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: totally qualified government french teacher at May 02, 2016 03:39 PM (dciA+)
Same story, never changes.
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 03:39 PM (jBuUi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUKEVU-TwM
Posted by: Serenity Now! at May 02, 2016 03:39 PM (BDZWU)
Posted by: President For Life Barack H. Obama at May 02, 2016 03:40 PM (/m8T6)
So the story is the actual French teacher did, um, someone (because c'mon) and they grabbed a warm body to oversee study hall while looking for someone else.
How is this a story?
Though, really, I mean at least show French movies. 8 Femmes par examples.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:40 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2016 03:40 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 02, 2016 03:42 PM (Qvgg/)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 03:42 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 02, 2016 03:42 PM (/m8T6)
But the next year, in Tenth Grade, our for-real actual permanent French teacher was ALSO not fluent in French -- although, oddly. she was (of all things) Romanian, and Romanian is pretty close to French, so it wasn't difficult for her to pick it up. However, her accent (I later learned) was ATROCIOUS, and it ruined every student in the class's future attempt to ever acquire an authentic-sounding French accent, because were imprinted with this bizarre Romanian-French accent.
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 03:43 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 03:43 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Groundskeeper Willie at May 02, 2016 03:43 PM (BDZWU)
Also Xx? years ago.
I would not be surprised if there were dozens of examples in North America even today.
Posted by: Souliren at May 02, 2016 03:43 PM (re3sR)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 02, 2016 03:44 PM (oU3Bb)
Posted by: French model at May 02, 2016 03:44 PM (0mRoj)
someone (because c'mon) and they grabbed a warm body to oversee study
hall while looking for someone else.
How is this a story?
Though, really, I mean at least show French movies. 8 Femmes par examples.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:40 PM (mf5HN)
That is what they should have done{/i] but they didn't. They are making the students work out the French for themselves using textbooks. They should have made it a study hall for the rest of the year and any student who needed the course credit for graduation should have been given the credit anyway.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 02, 2016 03:44 PM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 02, 2016 03:46 PM (vvmPQ)
All my French teachers could speak French and carry on conversations. Clearly white priivlege was at work or that was in the day you actually had to know the subject to be hired.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 03:47 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: Napoleon at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (PFZvJ)
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (T2aky)
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: nckate at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (/ygaY)
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 03:43 PM (jBuUi)
So we can recognize zombie IRL by xir Romanian-French accent.
Except zombie's smart enough to put out disinfo ....
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 02, 2016 03:48 PM (uURQL)
Any fool knows that the only words a Frenchmen needs to know are "I surrender".
Nyuk. Nyuk.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 03:49 PM (OcRm7)
Watters got in a fist fight and they didnt suspend him. Granted it was not his fault.
Geraldo and the shirtless bathroom selfies? Nope, thats good.
Beckel and the f bombs? Good until the back medicine caught up with him?
Kimberly drunk on air on New Years? Still good.
O'Reilly sending suggestive sexually harrassing texts to a producer? Ok. Choking his wife out in front of the kids and losing custody? Still good
what did she do that they felt was so compromising?
Posted by: ThunderB
Posted by: ThunderB at May 02, 2016 03:49 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 03:49 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: wth at May 02, 2016 03:49 PM (HgMAr)
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You can finally escape NY and head to Texas - though living in Houston isn't much better these days. Of course, it was the start (and firs liberal loss) of the great bathroom wars of 2016.
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (T2aky)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (5SCZ4)
Posted by: CMO at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (OwC2e)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hire Instigators, Inc. to Spice Up Your Formal Dinner! An Outrage Outlet subsidiary. at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Max Power at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Stay out da bushes at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (VjPX+)
Posted by: Bevis at May 02, 2016 03:51 PM (8aOqE)
i wasted two years in HS studying that, and never ever used it.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 02, 2016 03:51 PM (WhYLb)
How is this a story?
Though, really, I mean at least show French movies. 8 Femmes par examples.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:40 PM (mf5HN)
I dunno, if he "did someone", would they have him wandering the hallways? I really am curious as to what he did where they had to yank him out of the classroom.
But they may be having trouble finding a replacement that actually speaks French at this late date.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2016 03:51 PM (SXU3d)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 03:51 PM (kumBu)
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Mais oui!
IIRC, Catherine Denueve was a member of that stellar cast.
Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: Aldo at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (UWKYK)
High school:
My first year of French was taught by a French Canadian from Montreal. So that was Montreal French.
Second year was taught by a woman who spoke 7-8 languages but mainly Spanish and she was Basque. So yeah not so much French as Basque.
Third year was by a woman from Paris and first day of class we had no idea if she was speaking English or French. She was somewhere past appalled and into openly weeping at all of our accents. So that was Parisian French.
Cut to college:
First year French in college was by a guy who taught Russian, German and French. He was a Muscovite. So Russian French.
Second year French was by another Basque.
Third year French was by an Italian from Naples.
To the extent I speak French, which I barely do, it's this mishmash of Canadian, Basque, Parisian, Russian and Italian accents.
Good times, good times.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (mf5HN)
Besides surrendering, I guess. They do excel in that one key ability.
Posted by: Max Power at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Stay out da bushes at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (VjPX+)
Sometimes it's interesting to read a sentence for what it does not say.
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: chelsea danger at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (1nFsQ)
Not only could he not teach the curriculum, he couldn't even communicate with us. So the entire semester was us just siting in the class flipping through the haphazardly-assembled reading materials, and throwing paper airplanes at each other, while the teacher sat at the desk in front reading Mexican soccer sports magazines. Then he gave everyone an automatic "A." Sweet!
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Donald F. Troop, Author, "The Art of Hiring Ghostwriters" at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Roy at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (VndSC)
But, on my side, I would like to know why this former teacher has veers'.
We do not need no education
We do not need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher let children quiet
Hey teacher, leave those kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the Wall
All in all you're just another brick in the Wall
But, "vire'" becomes "veers'". What the hell is veers'? Translate also offer alternatives of "turns" or "ledge". So, I get "But, on my side, I would like to know why this former teacher has [turns or ledge]."
Still don't get it.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (R+30W)
Central Europe before WW1 was an interesting place. Nobody wanted to speak Czech or Polish except hicks and nationalists
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (vHM3V)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (zuTLp)
Good times, good times.
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:52 PM (mf5HN
But your smiling face makes it all good
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 02, 2016 03:42 PM (/m8T6)
Go back to Pedophile Island, Bubba.
And take The Beast with you.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (SXU3d)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (5SCZ4)
Posted by: ScoggDog at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (8v0G6)
Posted by: pourqoui? at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (25+/B)
Posted by: zombie
I had a German teacher in college who was Indian (dot, not feather). I walked into class, saw her, and thought that I had the wrong room, until I saw that everyone had their German texts out.
Strange accent, but she was good.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (326rv)
Posted by: Biden Is In The Ball Pit at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: barack at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (8aOqE)
1) A particularly toothsome bread,
2) Some lip smacking salad dressing and,
3) some out of this world fried potatoes.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (OcRm7)
*
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So, Romanian's got that "sounding contemptuous" thing down too?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (0IyZm)
Still difficult to learn.
Tres difficile.
Posted by: navybrat at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (8QGte)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hire Instigators, Inc. to Spice Up Your Formal Dinner! An Outrage Outlet subsidiary. at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (hLRSq)
A million years ago when I was young and idealistic my fiancee and I volunteered at an after school program at a jr. high in central Harlem.
We were trying to figure out what to do with the kids when we learned that they had about 20 donated Apple computers in the basement that no one was using. (This is 1986, so it's Apple IIs and the other kind). We thought we could teach a computer class.
Well, getting them up out of the basement and into a room was no small task. There aren't enough outlets. There's not a good lock on the door. The janitors or their union had a problem.
So we do arts and crafts and whatever and fight the bureaucracy and by about February we get a secure room with electric outlets and 20 computers lined up on 20 desks.
Then we hear from the principal. (Lovely lady, impossible job). There is a computer teacher and she doesn't want us teaching her kids because she doesn't want to mess up her instruction.
Computer teacher is a weird dudette. Wears a white lab coat all day. We finally arrange a summit meeting with the principal, and as it grinds on I say, "You're a computer teacher. It's February and we just got your computers installed. What have you been teaching them all year?"
"Computer math", she says.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (1xUj/)
But then they'd be taking our jobs.
"France. They're killing us. I mean. They are just killing us. They're stealing all the accent marks! English - we have no accent marks! Unfair. I'll negotiate a deal to make them speak English. Or at least get accent aigu back.
Posted by: Harun at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (UBBWX)
I deal with girl in China who can be reasonably effective reading and writing in English, and she thinks she can speak it, but actually she can't.
Two different skills.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: wth at May 02, 2016 03:55 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 03:55 PM (dFi94)
1) A particularly toothsome bread,
2) Some lip smacking salad dressing and,
3) some out of this world fried potatoes.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (OcRm7)
I am shocked and appalled that you forgot:
4) Some particularly tasty dip for a roast beef sandwich
5) Some very savory onion soup
And last but certainly not least:
6) Some very sexy maid outfits.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 03:56 PM (KUaJL)
Two different skills.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 03:54 PM (Zs4uk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbPWitSTe2k
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 03:56 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 03:56 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: IP at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (aQQbl)
Posted by: JoeF. at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (1kq9U)
Posted by: Stay out da bushes at May 02, 2016 03:50 PM (VjPX+)
My Dad, too! He spent his 21st birthday in Paris in 1945; he said the French waiter sneered at him when Dad asked, in his North Georgia drawl, where the meat was in his rarebit....
Posted by: the Butcher at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (AGJqR)
this high school is a magnet school and called the Energy Institute High School
focused on the energy industry, for real.
I seems to be pretty new, like a couple of years old at most. Principal is very young
if this french teacher taught for 25 years, it wasnt at this school
Something is really really weird here. Coverup weird
Posted by: ThunderB at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (Nwg0u)
#CruzCharismaCampaign
So they will be hiring soon?
Posted by: Teddy Bear Cruz at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (10hEu)
Posted by: chelsea danger at May 02, 2016 03:57 PM (1nFsQ)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 03:53 PM (zuTLp)
It was a literary oh-mahj bro! He mentions him in the song!
Also thanks for getting that stuck in my head.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 03:55 PM (dFi94) "
I was going to be a teacher (probably Jr. High or HS English) until I got disgusted with the Education department during my undergrad. So I just had to scramble and change my major to the things I had the next most credits in, which ended up being Psychology and Religious Studies. Not great for the job market, but I was always planning on going to grad school anyway.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 03:49 PM (OcRm7)
Hmmm. Maybe they took the vowels that the Polish didn't want.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (SXU3d)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 03:59 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: German Cain at May 02, 2016 03:59 PM (O1mBT)
Je veux de toi
Jusqu’à ce que je sois sec
Mais nos corps sont tout mouillés
Complètement couvert de sueur
Nous nous noyons dans la mare
Je n'ai aucun désir
Tu as ravage' mon cœur
Et mois j'ai bu ton sang
Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurais toujours faim de toi
Mais non pouvons faire ce que nous voulons
J'aurais toujours faim de toi
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 02, 2016 03:59 PM (9krrF)
Brigitte Bardot
*mic drop*
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (mf5HN)
O-La-La!
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hire Instigators, Inc. to Spice Up Your Formal Dinner! An Outrage Outlet subsidiary. at May 02, 2016 03:59 PM (hLRSq)
They couldn't win a war to save their lives but they know how to chop on some produce.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 03:59 PM (OcRm7)
Posted by: jsg at May 02, 2016 03:59 PM (5VaJ/)
So you know French, are fluent in French and would like to teach French? So sorry. You haven't been credentialed by the Gowned Credentialers. Three years. Maybe two if you're lucky.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:00 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at May 02, 2016 04:00 PM (Qvgg/)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:00 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Biden est dans le cup de sac at May 02, 2016 04:00 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at May 02, 2016 04:00 PM (tM4uk)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (pGfNT)
Posted by: SocialJusticeRevolution at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (ti3lq)
Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (PFZvJ)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 03:56 PM
Imagine my struggles with Latin 40 years ago
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (voOPb)
Not only can the teacher not speak French, he also said "toot sweet"....
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Biden est dans le cup de sac at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (mcm0N)
So you know French, are fluent in French and would like to teach French? So sorry. You haven't been credentialed by the Gowned Credentialers. Three years. Maybe two if you're lucky.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:00 PM (dFi94) "
If you know the right people, you might be able to grab a nice gig at a private school.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (KUaJL)
Levee en masse.
massed artillery
canned food.
Posted by: Harun at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (UBBWX)
Has he ever been in a hall before?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (SXU3d)
The Welsh contributed theirs, too.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:40 PM (mf5HN)
In college my Japanese literature professor was also teaching a class on Japanese film. The class convinced him that they should watch anime. The film? La Blue Girl.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (LUG6K)
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Their bulldog puppies are awfully cute. Does that count?
Posted by: Chi at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (AfOTL)
this sounds like a teacher who was drunk at work, or sent nude selfies or something
this is cover up weird
the only Jean Cuis I can find in Houston is 61 years old and used to teach in Dallas and then at a performing arts magnet school Called Booker T Washington
there is more to the story, and HISD doesnt want to say what this teacher did but it must have been bad
Posted by: ThunderB at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (zOTsN)
Had a live in Lady Friend in Denver who was the lead Math Teacher for a Middle School....
Smart Lady... helped develop curriculum and testing...
but could not figure out a 15% Tip in her head...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (qf6WZ)
Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: tu3031 at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (YFFpo)
Not only can the teacher not speak French, he also said "toot sweet"....
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (8XRCm)
Interestingly, Toot Sweet was drafted in the late 1st round, by the New Orleans Saints.
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (LUG6K) "
Top kek.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (kumBu)
Le Roi et la Reine est morte - vive la Belle France!
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hire Instigators, Inc. to Spice Up Your Formal Dinner! An Outrage Outlet subsidiary. at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (hLRSq)
Let's dispense with this fiction the left doesn't know what they're doing.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (GDulk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (Nwg0u)
speakers to practice your English with if you live in France. It might
be a bit harder to find a French person to talk to in flyover country,
USA. And I would think that if you don't use it in daily conversation
you'd soon get rusty.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 03:56 PM (u0lmX)
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My niece majored in French and works overseas teaching English to people whose native language is French. Sometimes she works out of Paris or Nice, sometimes she works out of African / Middle Eastern countries which were once French colonies. She couldn't teach in the US unless she went back and got a stupid Education degree. So pointless. They don't really want someone who knows what they are doing. They want drones.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (dFi94)
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Hall is for heroes!
Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (JBggj)
You rang?
Posted by: Brian "Blood and Guts" Williams at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (oKE6c)
Cwynnngdfrnng.... Welsh for weasel.
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (zuTLp)
Let's dispense with this fiction the left doesn't know what they're doing.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 04:04 PM (xuouz) "
And it works! I sure wasn't going to go through half a decade of leftist indoctrination just to land a job that pays only slightly better than being a busboy.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Stay out da bushes at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (VjPX+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:02 PM (KUaJL)
Reeeeeech*
Carry on.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (Nwg0u)
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From Fixerupper: Beck has gone batshit crazy.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (8XRCm)
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Or it was nothing and they are just incompetent.
I'd say it is 50/50
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (T2aky)
Posted by: Biden est dans le cup de sac at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 04:07 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 02, 2016 04:07 PM (1xUj/)
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Trump is really racking up the old IN coaching market. Is Gene Keady next?
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:07 PM (T2aky)
Posted by: Klatu at May 02, 2016 04:07 PM (e8kgV)
Thanks for the update. I had missed seeing him and will send up prayers.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:07 PM (w4NZ8)
Brigitte Bardot
*mic drop*
Posted by: alexthechick - Banderette at May 02, 2016 03:58 PM (mf5HN)
I'll see you Bardot and raise you - Catherine Deneuve.
Or Isabelle Adjani.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (u0lmX)
there is more to the story, and HISD doesnt want to say what this teacher did but it must have been bad
Posted by: ThunderB at May 02, 2016 04:03 PM (zOTsN)
My guess is accusation of inappropriate behavior by some student.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (LUG6K)
Canadian, Basque, Parisian, Russian and Italian accents.
Heh, can only imagine how offended the Parisian teacher was!
Took French class in college with a gal from Rhode Island who had the thickest accent. The teacher would get so exasperated, she would say (heavily enunciated) "le" and RI gal would say "ler" and they would go back and fourth. This happened in every class, with just about every word that didn't already have an 'r' in it..
Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (Nwg0u)
Just ..... forget it, nevermind.
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (zuTLp)
"It was only after the I-Team started asking questions, that Energy Institute High School parents finally received a letter from the principal, telling them their child's teacher is not highly qualified."
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I'd like to see that letter.
Posted by: iforgot at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (pC96u)
Conservative.
Posted by: Teacher's Union at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (8aOqE)
Posted by: Klatu at May 02, 2016 04:07 PM (e8kgV)
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MARIANNE!!!!
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jay Guevara
Nah -- I think the Ottoman Turks invented bureaucracy even before the French, way back in, like, the 1500s. And one might argue that the Mandarin system of China was a bureaucracy dating back to the 7th century AD!
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 04:09 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: chique d'afrique at May 02, 2016 04:09 PM (nIGPZ)
Second year, in high school proper, was easier, and third year was easier still. By the time I stopped studying it, in college, I was up to reading (simple) short stories, and discovering that writers varied in clarity and readability in Spanish just as they do in English.
All of that, and I still can't compose a sentence on paper or in my head for conversation.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:09 PM (0IyZm)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:09 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (JBggj)
That's a plus side for the invader, of course.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (OcRm7)
(Best Fawlty Towers Manuel accent) "Que?"
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (Z65m4)
I'm against credentials in basic education.
I believe that the ability to teach - to actually convey knowledge to another person - is a talent that can't be "learned".
Like singing. You've either got a talent for it or you don't. No amount of music and singing lessons will make you a singer that can bring a song to life. You may be able to stay in time and even hit the written notes, but you just aren't getting it across.
Same with teaching. You can have a masters or doctorate in education, know all the techniques and procedures, follow all the best practices, but if you don't have that special talent to connect to the person you're trying to get through to, it's not going to happen.
Just a blank stare coming back at you.
You can't credential this. Therefore, there is an enormous amount of total incompetents with walls full of credentials failing to teach our children. And on the other side, lots of people with a special gift who can't get paid for what they can do best because of bureaucracy and regulations.
Things need to change.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (Zs4uk)
Rome had bureaucracy before then. They made Joseph and Mary travel hundreds of miles to take a census.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (zUs0s)
Posted by: wth at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (kumBu)
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Ah, le Ile du Gilligan! 'ow you say, "Mary Ann for ze win"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:11 PM (0IyZm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (Nwg0u)
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Has anyone told him that this would include ice cream?
Posted by: SocialJusticeRevolution at May 02, 2016 04:11 PM (ti3lq)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 04:11 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Biden est dans le cup de sac at May 02, 2016 04:11 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:06 PM (w4NZ
Fen, you forgot Inspector Clouseau...
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:12 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 04:12 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (Nwg0u)
Just ..... forget it, nevermind.
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:08 PM (zuTLp)
You know, as someone who tries to follow Christ and fails on a daily basis, this crap with Beck is just too much. It's embarrassing.
Posted by: Blano at May 02, 2016 04:12 PM (sdPF/)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 02, 2016 04:01 PM (voOPb)
Ah, but if you were Catlick you would at least be able to follow Latin Mass instead of sitting there staring at a Latin/English missal trying to figure what the h is going on, which is what I do.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:12 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Fritz at May 02, 2016 04:12 PM (UzPAd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:05 PM (Nwg0u)
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Has anyone told him that this would include ice cream?
Posted by: SocialJusticeRevolution at May 02, 2016 04:11 PM (ti3lq)
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psssssst......... try Teddy Bears.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:12 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (SEXy3)
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Totally agree. We mock the teaching profession sometimes and rightly so, but there really are some great teachers. And I doubt the great ones that I had never had a teaching credential - but they did have expertise in the subjects they taught.
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (T2aky)
The order specifically targets Brazil's five central wireless carriers, which are forbidden from transmitting WhatsApp data for the duration of the blackout period. Any carriers found violating that order will be fined 500,000 reals, equivalent to roughly $140,000. Some carriers would not confirm they had received the order when reached by O Globo, but they are expected to comply.
Posted by: Klatu at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (e8kgV)
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Lick is French, not Russian. I don't know what t h e Russians do.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (Nwg0u)
enormous amount of total incompetents with walls full of credentials
failing to teach our children. And on the other side, lots of people
with a special gift who can't get paid for what they can do best because
of bureaucracy and regulations.
Things need to change.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 04:10 PM (Zs4uk)
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You are 100% correct. They would rather have a person with the right piece of paper, than a person who knows what they are doing and can show somebody else how to do it too.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Country Singer at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (uiwCw)
Posted by: Jay Guevara
Nah -- I think the Ottoman Turks invented bureaucracy even before
the French, way back in, like, the 1500s. And one might argue that the
Mandarin system of China was a bureaucracy dating back to the 7th
century AD!
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 04:09 PM (jBuUi)[/i
I'll grant your point regarding origins zombie, but you have to admit that the French are the ones that came up with the effed up spelling. Heck, Byzantine is a lot easier to spell than Byoorockrucee.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (OcRm7)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (zuTLp)
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Was going to say Charlemagne and recognition of The USA but actually, there's just too much for a paltry comment.
Posted by: Bigby's Hobo Gloves at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (3ZtZW)
It doesn't bother me. I have no particular interest in what Glenn Beck says. I figure people are going to say what they're going to say. I can't stop "em. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (Q7bO0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (Nwg0u)
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Word.
~Larry Bird
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: IP at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (aQQbl)
Stupid ... but the fact is that it doesn't matter. No one speaks French, anyway. It's deader than Latin. And all the French movies anyone could possibly want to see - all 4 of them - have subtitles in English.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (zc3Db)
I'm sure Lou Holtz was barely even out of High School at the time.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (kumBu)
Rome had bureaucracy before then. They made Joseph and Mary travel hundreds of miles to take a census.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously
I can only hope you're joking!
That element of the Gospel story (forcing people to travel to the birth towns to be counted for the census) is completely made up, and never once happened in real life. This is well documented.
The Roman Empire had elements of a bureaucracy, but it actually was more loosely governed and more disorganized than most people realize. Also, it was nepotistic, which is kid of the opposite of bureaucratic.
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Fr
Urban legend... fake ID was better.
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (T2aky)
I took Latin for three years in High School. My Latin teacher was an
Austrian, but he believed he had been a gladiator in a previous
incarnation...so I guess the class was the most authentic version
possible.
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I like the sight and sound of Latin, and I can recognize a lot of words, but I can't be said to "know" it. Still, I loved it that the "magic" language of the wizards in the 1981 film Dragonslayer was plain ol' Vulgar Latin.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (0IyZm)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (1xUj/)
Best business teacher I ever had was an in-between businessman. He would start a business, build it up, sell it, teach until bored, start a new business, build it, sell it, teach.
I caught him during a teaching jag.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (Z65m4)
Thankful that things seem to be alright for now. Appreciate the prayers/positive vibes/hoping I didn't die.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at May 02, 2016 04:16 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Fr
Urban legend... fake ID was better.
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (zuTLp)
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Whatever, the girl with questionable morals in homeroom was my best bet.
Posted by: IP at May 02, 2016 04:16 PM (aQQbl)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (u0lmX)
There are entire parastatal organizations in France which are staunchly dedicated to keeping foreign loanwords and neologisms out of the French language.
Meanwhile, English "pursues other languages down alleyways" to steal words from them.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (noWW6)
OK
it looks like this guy has quite a few alias, spent a large part of his adult life in MA not TX, did teach at a performing arts magnet school in TX
I think he lied about his credentials and they are covering it up since he already taught in TX before
and he might be conservative but I doubt it. I think he is a Haitian scam artist
Posted by: ThunderB at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Fr
Urban legend... fake ID was better.
Posted by: kraken
That reminds me; we used to have a Moron named McLovin. I wonder what happened to him.
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (326rv)
Posted by: Country Singer at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (uiwCw)
Biggus Dickus?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Illegitimus non carborumdum est!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (Z65m4)
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Used the right bathroom?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:18 PM (Nwg0u)
Thankful that things seem to be alright for now. Appreciate the prayers/positive vibes/hoping I didn't die.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread
Yay!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2016 04:18 PM (Z65m4)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 02, 2016 04:18 PM (evdj2)
My Latin teacher bore a striking resemblance to trigglypuff but she was about 90. And she suffered no fools. She always had a yardstick within reach and she was none to wield it with abandon.
On the bright side, she had season tickets to the Boston Bruins and she would hand out tickets to students who didn't something well. And she graded that part on a curve so my bar was low.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2016 04:19 PM (/tuJf)
this is a magnet high school geared to the energy industry
speaking French would be very useful if you were working for the big french oil company Total in Africa
Posted by: ThunderB at May 02, 2016 04:19 PM (zOTsN)
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How does that go? "English doesn't 'borrow' words from other languages. It pursues other languages down alleyways, mugs them, and takes their lunch money"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:19 PM (0IyZm)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:19 PM (dFi94)
I think he lied about his credentials and they are covering it up since he already taught in TX before
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Could be the school comes out ok on this - but strikes me that they are hiding something - perhaps they legally have to - but if so, why was he assigned somewhere else?
If anything, it will tell us about the slow response of the school beurocracy - but tell us something we don't know.
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (T2aky)
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (OcRm7)
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If that were the case, and he were allowed back into the school system, we'd almost certainly have heard of it by now from the accuser.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Yo! at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (GwIKd)
I half agree. The current process emphasizes the wrong skills and leaves lots of people who can't teach in the position to and a lot of people who should be able to unable to.
But real talent like you're describing above is rare, and even the talented people need to learn how to hone their skills.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:13 PM (dFi94)
This subject, the inability for society to be able to recognize people who have the talent to connect and understand, or communicate to others, is a big problem in other areas too.
In the medical field, I hear people who want to spend time talking with their doctors. For the most part, I believe this is a waste of time.
Most doctors don't want to talk to you. They hate it.
A far better method is to have advanced degree registered nurses or even a new medical category of people who do just this. Talk with patients. Take the time to find out what they're feeling and be able to ask the questions and get the answers - spoken and unspoken - about what is going on.
Then that person can distill that down to medical terms and communicate it to the doctors in a form they appreciate. If, after that, the doctor wants to ask questions or talk in general, fine. But use someone whose primary ability is communication to begin with.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (B48dK)
There are entire parastatal organizations in France which are staunchly dedicated to keeping foreign loanwords and neologisms out of the French language.
Meanwhile, English "pursues other languages down alleyways" to steal words from them.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (noWW6)
Yep. American language.. mongrel, like a pack of wild dogs.... which reminds me of a ditty.... "We are a pack of wild dogs, a pack of wild dogs are we... we run through the hills bereft of job skills, and we don't care where we pee..."
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 04:14 PM (OcRm7)
I always trip up on how to spell that word, and end up Googling it for the correct spelling.
So I can blame the French for that? *shakes fist angrily*
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (uURQL)
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I think my old French whore is dead.Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 02, 2016 04:18 PM (evdj2)
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Smell starting to improve?
Posted by: irright at May 02, 2016 04:20 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:21 PM (dFi94)
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They oughta build a WALL!
Posted by: Bigby's Hobo Gloves at May 02, 2016 04:21 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Peggy Hill at May 02, 2016 04:21 PM (FXW24)
Thankful that things seem to be alright for now. Appreciate the prayers/positive vibes/hoping I didn't die.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at May 02, 2016 04:16 PM (rJUlF)
Good to hear from you. Stay hopeful.
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 02, 2016 04:21 PM (uURQL)
Not like we put much stock in speaking the language now do we?
Posted by: dick butkis at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (R5HRU)
Lots of yuks would follow.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (OcRm7)
Hopefully your Latin teacher did not yell out "F you! and" Shut Up!" as Triggly Puff did to people whom she didn't approve of..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (w4NZ8)
Illegitimus non carborumdum est!
Posted by: rickb223
That's so wrong, it's not even on the correctness/incorrectness spectrum!
The original motto (usually printed on placards to put on your desk in the 1950s) was "Non illegitimus carborundum," but even that was totally made-up pseudo-Latin, created in a time when most people could a. see that it was a joke, and yet b. still understand what it was trying ungrammatically to say ("Don't let the bastards grind you down."). Your wacky version takes the already wrong original to a whole new level of wrongness!
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (326rv)
I always check the Department of Corrections websites first...
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (zuTLp)
The scariest educational news I read today is that Trigglypuff's father was a Harvard prof.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Yo! at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (GwIKd)
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Which pronunciation? I can sometimes follow the English but the German is better sung by far.
Posted by: Bigby's Hobo Gloves at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (3ZtZW)
The fire that Vic linked to this morning, of an Orthodox Church in NYC yesterday (Orthodox Easter) is "suspicious"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3569657/ Orthodox-cathedral-shell-day-fire-broke-following-Easter-services-fire- officials-call-blaze-suspicious.html
Posted by: @votermom at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM (nbrY/)
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM (T2aky)
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Used the right bathroom?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:18 PM (Nwg0u)
That wouldn't be very French ... using a bathroom, that is. The French loved to just piss in the corners of the rooms up until the late 60s - the 1960s.
There's a reason that the French speak as if they're holding their noses closed ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM (zc3Db)
So.... are there any little boys in this Frenching class??
Posted by: Harry Reid at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Yo! at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM (GwIKd)
Not like we put much stock in speaking the language now do we?
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And Shop teachers are quite familiar with sharpened blades. I'd bet they'd have no problem at all leading a dissection in Biology.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Tommy Chong at May 02, 2016 04:24 PM (8ZskC)
Cultural appropriation!!!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2016 04:24 PM (NOIQH)
No f-bombs but I was told to shut up more than once. And then there was the yardstick.
She was actually a really good teacher. Very much old school but it was important to her that we learned and she wasn't taking no for an answer.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 02, 2016 04:24 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 04:22 PM (jBuUi)
I believe that "wrongitude" is the word you're looking for. Or "French" can serve as a reasonable synonym.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 04:25 PM (zc3Db)
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What did triggerlypuffs dad teach at Harvard?
Posted by: Yo! at May 02, 2016 04:23 PM
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Trigonometry for poofters.
Posted by: irright at May 02, 2016 04:25 PM (pMGkg)
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I'm betting they cant't. If the students are required to have two years of foreign language to get into college, and already have their first year invested in French, switching to Spanish isn't going to work.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 02, 2016 04:25 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (T2aky)
Yeeeah... "narrows eyes.."always thought there was something fishy... off.. about that guy...
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:26 PM (zuTLp)
What's the difference?
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! 2016 Barking For Us at May 02, 2016 04:26 PM (8ZskC)
In the vast majority of cases, those teachers were kiddy diddlers.
The union won't let even a child molester be fired without a huge and expensive fight, but the district's legal counsel also won't let them put the offender back in contact with kids. (Known prior offender placed in a position to potentially reoffend == many more zeroes on the settlement check.)
So there these teachers sit. For years and years, until retirement.
But if you call this system of "education" clinically crazy and say it needs to be blown up, you'll be asked why, oh why, do you HATE THE CHILDREN.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 02, 2016 04:26 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2016 04:26 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:26 PM (w4NZ8)
my theory is that this is because they're treated with such deference that they grow to believe that no one else has anything important to tell them unless they ask for information from the person in question to begin with.
even then there's issues with them hearing what they're told, rather than what they want to hear.
and don't get me started on nurses...
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 02, 2016 04:27 PM (WhYLb)
Waiting for Superman.
Horribly depressing documentary.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:27 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:28 PM (zuTLp)
Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2016 04:28 PM (PFZvJ)
The person who taught Greek and Roman drama at my college and also Greek was about 75 years old-or seemed that old. She was great!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:28 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: torquewrench at May 02, 2016 04:17 PM (noWW6)
My participles! He stole my participles! That English bastard!
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hire Instigators, Inc. to Spice Up Your Formal Dinner! An Outrage Outlet subsidiary. at May 02, 2016 04:28 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 02, 2016 04:29 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Hire Instigators, Inc. to Spice Up Your Formal Dinner! An Outrage Outlet subsidiary. at May 02, 2016 04:28 PM (hLRSq)
That's what you get for leaving them dangling like that.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:29 PM (KUaJL)
Ahem. Is that your participle I see dangling there? And "hopefully"? It's an adverb, dear. It should modify a verb.
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Pedant at May 02, 2016 04:29 PM (8ZskC)
Quod est omnino cromulent sententia structura.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 02, 2016 04:29 PM (9krrF)
That reminds me; we used to have a Moron named McLovin. I wonder what happened to him.
Posted by: Blue Hen
Sounds like someone who would manage a McDonald's.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 02, 2016 04:30 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Kilroy at May 02, 2016 04:30 PM (OF/aZ)
Posted by: Beavis at May 02, 2016 04:30 PM (8ZskC)
My 8th grade homeroom teacher should have tried out for the Yankees. He could spin around and fire that eraser at someone's head as fast as any major league pitcher can throw to first.
Once he threw a piece of chalk which landed right in the mouth of the kid who was talking. We had to applaud that, it was so awesome.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:30 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 02, 2016 04:27 PM (WhYLb)
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Hey. The nurses are the ones that gather all the information that the doctor won't listen to, collect the data that's beneath the doctors to collect, tell the doctor what's really going on before he ever goes into the room, and fixes his mistakes when he writes out the wrong dosage on the medication.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (dFi94)
Hey, FS. I promised to post this for you last week, but got overwhelmed by the last few days of Holy Week. Here you go:
https://www.facebook.com/GrumpyOrthodoxCat/
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (Q7bO0)
O/T
Forty years ago today, Rick Monday saves an American flag from being burned in Center Field at Dodgers Stadium.
Today he'd probably be banned from Major League Baseball for life for violating hippies' freedom of speech.
Posted by: Harry Reid at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (8XRCm)
That element of the Gospel story (forcing people to travel to the birth towns to be counted for the census) is completely made up, and never once happened in real life. This is well documented.
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 04:15 PM (jBuUi)
Would you care to elaborate on the documentation ?
Googling brought this up:
http://www.comereason.org/roman-census.asp
"Taking all of this together, we have at least three censuses in the area of Judea - one in 8 B.C., one starting around 2 B.C. and one in 6 A.D."
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor of equal or greater value at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2016 04:28 PM (PFZvJ)
There used to a French language series for beginners on some PBS channel that had a very hot French girl teaching. This was years ago. I'm sure that the episodes must be on youtube (along with tons of other French instruction for those who care).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (8XRCm)
Drudge would sacrifive a baby if it meant getting Trump elected.
Posted by: Apostate at May 02, 2016 04:32 PM (zaVwL)
That was back in the day when bad behavior wasn't tolerated. My fifth grade teacher hauled boys who he thought were being pains in the rear up by their shirts. He would have been fired pronto nowadays! I loved him but I was a nice girl who caused no trouble.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:32 PM (w4NZ8)
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Oh ya, I remember that. I think there's a video of it.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:33 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Apostate at May 02, 2016 04:32 PM (zaVwL)
O.k. That made me laugh-loudly, Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:33 PM (w4NZ8)
I have a feeling one of the tech giants is going to start an online high school and the educrats are going to go out of business.
Well, the educrats will riot and smash things of course, but our century-old K-12 format is just so outdated and useless I can't see it lasting much longer.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 02, 2016 04:33 PM (OcD4G)
Say bonjour, chump.
http://tinyurl.com/zdjqqsr
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 02, 2016 04:34 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (zc3Db)
I remember ace talking about her. I think he called her Mademoiselle Headlights.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 02, 2016 04:34 PM (u0lmX)
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Maybe. But Beck really is doing the fasting thinger.
Posted by: Bigby's Hobo Gloves at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (3ZtZW)
but could not figure out a 15% Tip in her head...
Hey! no fair!
That's not MATH - that's arithmetic. i can do the former. never have been able to do subtraction worth un sou.
Posted by: Waldo Trout at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (M1MpJ)
Collegiate TA wouldn't have an education degree and a union card.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (1xUj/)
I remember a teacher who would discipline trouble makers by hauling them up to the chalkboard, draw 3 circles - one for each pinky and one for the nose. They had to hold that pose for a period of time determined by the offense. Sometimes you were able to stand on the soles of your feet, sometimes the circles were a little high and you were up on your toes.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (jxbfJ)
Starbucks CEO: We must reclaim the American dream
A Starbucks customer from Chicago has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the coffee chain, accusing it of using too much ice in its cold drinks.
The suit, filed by Stacy Pincus, claims that while Starbucks (SBUX) advertises its cold drinks by fluid ounce, the numbers are only accurate when ice is added to a drink.
"Starbucks is advertising the size of its Cold Drink cups on its menu, rather than the amount of fluid a customer will receive when they purchase a Cold Drink -- and deceiving its customers in the process," the suit says.
A Venti cold drink, for example, is advertised as having 24 fluid ounces, but only includes 14 ounces of the actual liquid, the lawsuit claims. The rest is ice.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Albert Moyer at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (tf9Ne)
Once he threw a piece of chalk which landed right in the mouth of the kid who was talking. We had to applaud that, it was so awesome.
Posted by: Donna
Today students throw things at the teacher. Things such as desks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 02, 2016 04:35 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:36 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 02, 2016 04:36 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 02, 2016 04:27 PM (WhYLb)
Nurses are the better listeners.
There is a whole field of study out there based on listening and understanding. It's critical in education, medical and, where it pays off the most, in sales.
The best sales people aren't the ones who talk the best, it's the ones who listen the best.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 04:37 PM (Zs4uk)
There are organizations -- ISTR it's Academe Francais and the French-Speaking League -- that exist just to keep teachers and business travelers in practice. They meet, speak only French, have a lecture in French, and I'm pretty sure have drinks, French drinks. My senior English prof, a Swarthmore Chaucerian, could switch back and forth between the languages mid-sentence, with gesture to match, and often was the speaker at said meetings. This was how education majors with a French minor in the Midwest were expected to build and maintain their skills. The regular members thought it great fun indeed.
Going to these does not pay extra, and it cuts into your Masters of Education (and now, PhD in Ed.Technology) seminar time, so, honored in the breach.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 02, 2016 04:37 PM (xq1UY)
http://tinyurl.com/zdjqqsr
Damn!
And up 'til this minute I'd have said nothing interesting ever came out of Belgium.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 02, 2016 04:37 PM (1xUj/)
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You can only say that AFTER the Germans leave.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:37 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: MTF at May 02, 2016 04:37 PM (/m8T6)
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (uURQL)
I believe that there were a number of census' held by the Romans in Judea around that time. 13BC, 6 BC, and 2 BC, I think. The consul of the time is named in both Roman records and Biblically. So Jesus birthday is kind of fluid, lots been written, and the Star may have been Venus, which astronomical calculating back could possibly be helpful.
But... moron here, as a disclaimer...
Posted by: kraken at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (zuTLp)
But how would the less fortunate get their free lunch?
Posted by: Golfman at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 02, 2016 04:36 PM (oKE6c)
She's not anyone's little anything.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (KUaJL)
I like the sight and sound of Latin
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Which pronunciation? I can sometimes follow the English but the German is better sung by far.
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I always imagine Latin to be pronounced in an unholy mishmash of Italian and Spanish. A sonorous sound, in any case. "In nomine patris, et filii, et Spiritu Sancti" just seems more impressive than "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (0IyZm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (Nwg0u)
Drudge is a liar, then. I caught in the radio, and Beck did not say that it was to elect Cruz, but for God' mercy on the country in general. No doubt Beck thinks that said mercy would involve electing Cruz, but that isn't the stated reason for the fast.
Beck was also saying something about "putting down our swords," evidently a reference to the Cruzer-Trumpster fight, but I didn't catch all of that.
Posted by: Grey Fox at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (bZ7mE)
The best sales people aren't the ones who talk the best, it's the ones who listen the best.
Posted by: jwest at May 02, 2016 04:37 PM (Zs4uk)
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Oh gawd ---that Vulgarian--he's such a listener!
Posted by: Biden est dans le cup de sac at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: kimoloka at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (Ra8VF)
Today he'd probably be banned from Major League Baseball for life for violating hippies' freedom of speech.
Posted by: Harry Reid at May 02, 2016 04:31 PM (8XRCm)
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Here's the video. Cubs to the rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0j1CpbC1t4
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (dFi94)
I don't think teachers should, hit the kids or hurt them in anyway, but there's a huge amount of discipline that's lacking today because teachers are scared of losing their jobs, being sued etc.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (w4NZ8)
There used to a French language series for beginners on some PBS channel that had a very hot French girl teaching.
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Was she wearing a maid outfit?
Posted by: wth at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (HgMAr)
Sorry, who is Trigglypuff? Is that Cora Segal, Jabba the Hutt's little sister?
Posted by: Jay Guevara
Offspring of Jabba the Hutt and Pizza the Hut.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: SH at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (T2aky)
Posted by: Golfman
Let them eat Raspberry Pi.
*SNNNIFFFF*
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (OcD4G)
http://tinyurl.com/zdjqqsr
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)>>>
Learn a new language while fapping.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 02, 2016 04:39 PM (tf9Ne)
French-Speaking League -- that exist just to keep teachers and business
travelers in practice.
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Loozyana has CODOFIL, which exists at least in part to keep Cajun French from dying out. It's quite a bit different in pronunciation and vocabulary from the Parisian stuff, I understand.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:40 PM (0IyZm)
Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2016 04:40 PM (PFZvJ)
Posted by: Al Moyer, Mime at May 02, 2016 04:40 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Chris Christie Wants Your Puttanesca! at May 02, 2016 04:40 PM (mcm0N)
Thank you! Rose Bertram.
Posted by: MTF at May 02, 2016 04:40 PM (/m8T6)
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French Eubonics.
Posted by: fixerupper at May 02, 2016 04:41 PM (8XRCm)
I read that too quickly as Gene Kelly and I was imagining what Donald would say about a great dead hoofer endorsing him! ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2016 04:41 PM (w4NZ8)
was to elect Cruz, but for God' mercy on the country in general. No
doubt Beck thinks that said mercy would involve electing Cruz, but that
isn't the stated reason for the fast.
Posted by: Grey Fox at May 02, 2016 04:38 PM (bZ7mE)
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I didn't hear this on the radio myself, but I'm wondering if maybe this was said in regards to the National Day of Prayer, which I believe is this Thursday.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2016 04:41 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at May 02, 2016 04:41 PM (KUaJL)
That is a dangling preposition. Turn in your card. You're a pissant pedant.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 02, 2016 04:41 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: steevy at May 02, 2016 04:42 PM (B48dK)
There used to a French language series for beginners on some PBS channel that had a very hot French girl teaching.
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Was she wearing a maid outfit?
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When I was in grammar school, our teachers would occasionally drag us to the TV room, where we had to sit through an educational-channel program of very basic French, "La plume de ma tante" sort of thing. All I can recall is the dark-haired lady on screen saying "Bon!" a lot . . . and when it came time for us to be tested on the stuff, we'd forgotten all of it, so our teacher had to teach us the test. The "teaching to the test" idea of modern educators goes back a lot further than you'd think.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 02, 2016 04:43 PM (0IyZm)
Jerry Pournelle has said a couple of times that in all his years of learning, through doctoral dissertation level, the very best instructors he ever had were military NCOs teaching technical courses.
No education degrees nor union cards there.
Posted by: torquewrench at May 02, 2016 04:44 PM (noWW6)
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Meh. Maybe he does. Mostly he's a lunatic.
Posted by: Bigby's Hobo Gloves at May 02, 2016 04:44 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Horace de Vere Cole at May 02, 2016 04:44 PM (M1MpJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 02, 2016 04:45 PM (k4M/B)
Posted by: Sassy at May 02, 2016 04:46 PM (q7eWh)
Posted by: mrp at May 02, 2016 04:51 PM (JBggj)
expensive fight, but the district's legal counsel also won't let them
put the offender back in contact with kids. (Known prior offender placed
in a position to potentially reoffend == many more zeroes on the
settlement check.)
In fairness to the union, kids making up accusations in order to get back at a teacher, or because they were coached to do so by someone else is entirely within the realm of possibility. Heck, we've had how many discussions on this site about false accusations against college students?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 02, 2016 04:53 PM (LUG6K)
Let's just say my mom was less than skilled behind the wheel and I am amazed that I am alive to write about this.
Posted by: Cheri at May 02, 2016 04:58 PM (oiNtH)
Googling brought this up:
http://www.comereason.org/roman-census.asp
"Taking all of this together, we have at least three censuses in the area of Judea - one in 8 B.C., one starting around 2 B.C. and one in 6 A.D."
Posted by: HopefulMonster Bravely supporting kittens
Sure Romans had censuses all the time. But what they DIDN'T do was force every single person in the Empire to travel to their birth towns to be counted. Think about how hugely difficult (and hugely unnecessary) that is. Just as with modern censuses, Romans just counted people where they currently were living.
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 05:01 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Hopeful at May 02, 2016 05:01 PM (5VvBx)
http://tinyurl.com/zdjqqsr
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 02, 2016 04:34 PM (8ZskC)
That's not the one I was thinking of, but she's very hot. The one I was talking about was on air ten or twenty years ago. A very nice blonde French girl.
In any event, this shows that kids have access to great french instruction - FREE! - even if their teachers suck donkey shlong (and most teachers in public school certainly do).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 05:20 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: zombie at May 02, 2016 05:01 PM (jBuUi)
But they very well might have done it in Israel. I don't think the Romans cared much about the hardship it might cause the Jews.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 02, 2016 05:26 PM (zc3Db)
but I LMAO at that Pink Floyd translation. Didn't even need the video. Well played.
Posted by: no one of consequence, sittin in the corner practicing pidgin ASL at May 02, 2016 05:39 PM (3WZi1)
Posted by: Butt-head at May 02, 2016 05:58 PM (jV8Mq)
Posted by: Seipherd at May 02, 2016 06:03 PM (puxmh)
Good times.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 02, 2016 06:26 PM (S2VsH)
Posted by: le professeur at May 02, 2016 09:55 PM (uqRc8)
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