When Daisy is explaining to the teacher what "si se puede" means, the teacher looks completely dumbfounded and confused. She's a biology teacher. Most teachers know a second language, maybe even two. And most of her students are hispanic, so she should definately know the language. What bad script writing! How dumb.
shareShe's an ex website exec..does she really need to know Spanish?..No.
She should know how to speak Spanish if she's gonna teach biology to a group of hispanic kids. One of the students could hardly speak English. Would you jump out of a an airplane without a parachute if you were gonna go skydiving?
Claudia: It must be tough when you're spanking your monkey
Ishmael: You have a monkey?
If I wanted to kill myself, Yes.
shareOkay, w/e. "Miss Bartlett" can't just learn to speak Spanish--it's takes years to be fluent in any language. I think this part was actually pretty logical.
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Her being a Biology teacher has nothing to do with Spanish. Her job is to teach Biology in English. If the students can't understand English all that well, it is not her problem. They have certain classes for them if they are struggling.
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I'm a teacher and I don't speak another language. (Yes, I did take another language in high school and college. However, I graduated from college 25 years ago and never had to use it. "If you don't use it, you lose it." All I can recall are a few words here and there.) Not being able to speak another language has not affected my teaching career at all.
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Yep, "un otro" is improper Spanish grammar.
Take your own advice, kacheek.
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I'm a teacher and I can't speak a second language. The last foreign language class I had was in high school. I even picked my college major strategically to avoid college foreign language classes. I have several hispanic students in my class too, but I don't speak spanish with them. They have special classes for that. It's called ESL-english second language. There are teachers who are specially trained to teach English to non-English speaking students. I know about 10 words in Spanish and even fewer in French.
shareI just finished getting my teaching license in Spanish last week. I also speak Japanese. But there are other languages in the world, too. Not everyone has to take Spanish. I did part of my student teaching at a full-immersion Spanish elementary school designed for kids from English-speaking families to learn a second language while they are growing up. Most schools are full-immersion English schools and they work just fine as long as the students make an effort.
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