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A Banner Week for Right Wing Xenophobia

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/30/2010 1:56:09 pm PDT

re: #637 Aceofwhat?

but a bill that doesn’t contain standards is different from a bill that doesn’t specify its goal. the goal here is not to remove teachers with mild accents, otherwise it would have said that.

Let me put it as simply as I can:

If the bill doesn’t distinguish between what a strong or mild accent is, then you cannot say that the goal is not to remove teachers with mild accents. The language ‘strong accent’ has no actual meaning unless you define what ‘strong’ means.

If strong is up to a subjective judgement, then one person can say an accent is mild, and another person can say it is strong.