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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Job opening: kindergarten class teacher. NO ACCENTS CAN APPLY

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Do you really not think it is an issue if a Kindergarten teacher has a thick enough accent so that the students can't understand the teacher?  That's very different than no accents can apply.[/quote]

Pp here- yes i think it is an issue...to upper middle class people who are not as familiar with working class people with accents.

Correction: NO THICK ACCENTS CAN APPLY

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You have no idea what my socioeconomic status is or the degree to which my daughter has or has not been exposed to accents to this point.  Nor is she the only one having trouble understanding the teacher, which includes kids who come from homes where English is not the first language.

It is particularly problematic for K.  Even 1st or 2nd would be a lot less of a big deal because by then students know their letters and what sound they make.  In K, many students are learning to differentiate the sounds made, for example, by "a," "e," and "i," which are fairly subtle differences.  Figuring that out when you have trouble understanding the teacher is far more difficult.

And, although you clearly want to focus on the accent, that is not the only issue with the teacher, as explained in my OP.[/quote]

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