Student walkout over 'speak American' teacher remarks

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Student walkout over 'speak American' teacher remarks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, October 20, 2017 01:36 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 20, 2017 01:40 PM EDT
CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. — Students at a high school in a heavily Hispanic district have staged a walkout to protest a teacher’s comment that a Spanish-speaking student should instead “speak American.”
Dozens of students walked out of Cliffside Park High School on Monday after a video clip surfaced in which a teacher admonished a student for not speaking English.
“Men and women are fighting. They are not fighting for your right to speak Spanish,” the teacher said in the video . “They are fighting for your right to speak American.”
Some of the students told The Record they were disciplined for participating in the walkout and were given punishments ranging from detention to multiday suspensions.
“The administration thought I did that to insult them,” said sophomore Sean Hughes, who said he’s facing “a lot of disciplinary action” for the walkout. “I did that for my friends because they come from different ethnicities and I don’t care if I’m white, I’m going to stand up with them.”
School officials didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Sophomore Filipp Vasconcellos received a Saturday detention.
“I feel like it was an attack on the First Amendment,” he said. “It’s just wrong that they decided to discipline us for standing up for what we believe in.”
Another sophomore who was given detention, Waygner Vasquez, said he felt it was wrong to discipline students who protested, as many didn’t leave school grounds.
In response to an open records request, the school district told the newspaper on Thursday that a freshman and a junior received suspensions this week. The reasons were not released.
The district superintendent said Wednesday that the Board of Education is investigating the teacher’s comment and would make a decision about the teacher’s status within the week.
Students at Cliffside Park High School in New Jersey protested after video of a teacher telling students to 'speak American' surfaced online. (Instagram/rosa_coo)

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It might be a good job skill to speak English. Perhaps the student should actually take advantage of his environment and actually learn something.
 

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Too bad it wasn't swim class
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a walkout would have been really interesting to see
 

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Any teacher that says 'speak American', should be fired, because there's no such thing.

Any teacher that says "speak American" means that it's okay to mumble and leave off the last syllable of a word "if you're too tared to finish it".



... or,umm...

In Brooklyn, an "oil burner" is an "earl boinah".

Toidy doidy poiple boidies sittin' on da coib
an' choipin an' boipin an' eatin doity woims.
Along came Boit an' his goilfriend Moit
She woiks in a shoit factowy back in Detwoit
an' boy was dey poitoibed to see dem
Toidy doidy poiple boidies sittin' on da coib
an' choipin an' boipin an' eatin doity woims.
 
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Imagine having to speak English in an English-speaking country. What strange times we live in. Next they'll be expecting people who live in China to be able to speak Chinese!
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Which example is "American" of among almost 100 langages indigenous to the continent - a point the Injun "lawyer" overlooked in his rush to bash

So, when I referred to "things that don't exist," you didn't get that I was including "American?"

"Thankee, odabashi, you are an honest fellow, though uncommon stupid."

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lol...no, in a couple years THAT will be american

Considering the UK government considers Scots - the language that is spoken by around 1.5 million of the 5.5 million people of Scotland - to be a separate, but intelligible, Germanic language from English (the closest-related language to English) it's not beyond the realms of possibility that American English might become different enough in the future for it to be considered a language in its own right - American.

Mutual intelligibility between languages:

Written and spoken forms

Afrikaans: Dutch (partially)[4]
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: Turoyo (to a limited degree, asymmetrically)[5][6]
Azerbaijani: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Turkish and Urum[7][8][9] (partially and asymmetrically[verification needed])[10]
Belarusian: Russian (partially) and Ukrainian (closely) Polish (partially)[11]
Bulgarian: Macedonian[12]
Crimean Tatar: Azerbaijani, Gagauz, Turkish and Urum[7][8][9] (partially and asymmetrically[verification needed])[10]
Czech: Slovak[13] (significantly)
Danish: Norwegian and Swedish[14] (both partially and asymmetrically)[4]
Dutch: Afrikaans (in written form; in spoken form partially),[4][15] West Frisian (partially)[4]
English: Scots (significantly)[16]
Estonian: Finnish (partially)[17]
Finnish: Estonian (partially),[17] Karelian (high)[18] Kven language and Meänkieli (very high)
French : Italian (partially), Spanish (partially),[19] Catalan (partially)
Gagauz: Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Turkish and Urum[7][8][9] (partially and asymmetrically[verification needed])[10]
Galician: Spanish (high),[20] Portuguese (very high)[21]
Irish: Scottish Gaelic (partially; varies greatly according to dialect. The greatest mutual intelligibility is between Ulster Irish and southern Scottish dialects.)[22] and Welsh (partially). See also: Comparison of Scottish Gaelic and Irish.
Italian: French and Spanish (both partially)[19]
Macedonian: Serbo-Croatian (partially and asymmetrically)[23]
Maltese: Tunisian Arabic (significantly) and Sicilian (partially)[24]
Manchu: Xibe[25]
Norwegian: Danish[4] and Swedish (partially and asymmetrically)[4][14]
Portuguese: Galician (very high)[21] and Spanish (partially)[26][27][28]
Russian: Belarusian and Ukrainian (both partially)[11]
Slovak: Czech (significantly) Polish (partially)[13]
Slovenian: Serbo-Croatian (partially and asymmetrically)[29]
Serbo-Croatian: Slovenian (partially and asymmetrically)[29] Macedonian (partially and asymmetrically)[23]
Spanish: Galician (high),[20] Catalan (partially), Portuguese (in written form, high; in spoken form, partially), French (partially), Italian (partially)[19]
Swedish: Danish (partially)[4] and Norwegian[4][14]
Tunisian Arabic: Maltese (significantly),[24] Algerian Arabic and Libyan Arabic (both partially)[30]
Turkish: Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz and Urum[7][8][9] (partially and asymmetrically[verification needed])[10]
Ukrainian: Belarusian and Russian (both partially)[11]
Urum: Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz and Turkish[7][8][9] (partially and asymmetrically[verification needed])[10]
Xibe: Manchu[25]
Zulu: Ndebele (partially),[31][32] Xhosa (partially),[32] and Swazi (partially)[32]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility
 

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So, when I referred to "things that don't exist," you didn't get that I was including "American?"

"Thankee, odabashi, you are an honest fellow, though uncommon stupid."

-- Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission
I speak English ... not trollish blather - and many of those hundred or so of those native AMERICAN tongues still do exist - at least in the Canadian part of North AMERICA.

Pattie's quote suits you well - though the jury's still out on that honest part.... Still want to capitalize on it?
 

Tecumsehsbones

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I speak English ... not trollish blather - and many of those hundred or so of those native AMERICAN tongues still do exist - at least in the Canadian part of North AMERICA.

Pattie's quote suits you well - though the jury's still out on that honest part.... Still want to capitalize on it?

I understand you're embarrassed. It's OK, somebody's gotta anchor the bell curve.