I recently was reading an article in the Providence Journal , stating that Teachers may soon have pass an English competency exam prior to being certified. There is currently no test for this as a teacher tests and becomes a certified teacher. Massachusetts began requiring this in 2002.
Evidently there could be a number of public school staff that are not able to speak, read, and/or write English enough to be teaching in a classroom. Some say that these teachers should of already proved their competency by the classes and tests they have to take in order to become a certified teacher. Evidently some have "slipped through the cracks" as evidenced by this article.
This remind me of a Teacher Assistant that my daughter had at the age of 5. My daughter at the time was "non-verbal" or very close to it. She would echo what you spoke. Her aide had broken english. Sometimes I had to strain to understand her. The first thing I thought is why would assign a teacher assistant that didn't have clear english speaking when her biggest challenge was speech?
You can read the full article by clicking on "Providence Journal" above.
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