Friday, April 30, 2010

"Our Governer Haff Commanded: You Vill Learn to Sprechen Der English Mit Der Proper Akzent! Jawohl!"

Arizona seems to be taking the lead when it comes to writing the book on running a state in as both as lunatic and as mean-spirited a manner as possible:
School districts in Arizona are under orders from the state's Department of Education to remove from classrooms teachers who speak English with a very heavy accent or whose speech is ungrammatical.
It's probably not rational, given what is going on in Arizona, to wonder if a teacher who was born and raised in Yazoo, Mississippi or Boston, Massachusetts or the Borough of Brooklyn, NY or Machais, Maine would be rejected as an English teacher in Arizona.

Of course they would not be rejected. There is only one accent that is going to be forbidden in Arizona schools. And it sure isn't going to be a German one.

C'mon, Arizona, you're making it far too easy for us to make fun of you. In the space of a handful of weeks, you've managed to overtake Texas ("Thomas Jefferson, who?"), Kansas ("what is this `science' you suggest we larn our children?") as the looniest state in the Union. At this rate, we'll end up stringing razor wire around your borders and proclaiming your state to be the National Nut House.
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3 comments:

  1. BadTux4/30/2010 9:15 PM

    Arizona politics has always been insane. There was one ten-year period, I think the late 80's/early 90's, where not a single governor managed to serve a full term of office -- they got indicted, they were so batshit loony they got impeached, they got sent to jail, whatevah. Remember Evan Meecham and the kerfuffle over the MLK holiday? Yeah, Arizona.

    Glad to see my former state of residence continues its fine tradition of batshit lunacy. Reminds me that while some things change, others are forever.

    - Badtux the Former Arizonian Penguin

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  2. Axl Brutality5/01/2010 5:12 AM

    While I agree with the corruption and idiocy of much of Arizona politics, and I can almost guarantee the underlying intent of this, I will say that if it was widely enforced and racially indiscriminate, it does have validity. I'd like my children to learn proper, clear English; I don't know about you. However, as stated, we both know the underlying intent, and it's sad. Hidden agendas always ruin good original ideas.

    However, I'm going to leave this completely separate from any related debate, because I veer to the right side of things such as immigration in AZ.

    I enjoyed your post though :)

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  3. Comrade Misfit5/01/2010 8:23 AM

    Axl, thank you.

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