re: #62 Cato the Elder

A thick Southern American accent, maybe.

Seriously, it doesn’t say “remove teachers with accents” except from classes where students are learning English.

Would you pay money to Berlitz for a German teacher who spoke German with a British accent?

Cato, I don’t think you’re getting it. Or I’m not. When they say ‘still learning English’, I don’t imagine an ELD classroom, I envision a mainstreamed class where the kids are still classified as English learners. That takes years to phase out of, and the phrasing they’re using, IIUC, probably includes damn near every public school classroom in AZ.