• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I swear, I’ve been thinking there’s nothing from the US that can surprise me anymore, but this did get me.

    How can there be no-one there in any position of power to ask “wtf are you doing”?

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      The thing that really gets me about this story is it was an ESL School. The students were mostly adults learning to speak English. Not only should an ESL school understand the English language well enough to know what a homophone is, homophones are an extremely important concept for non-native English speakers because that kind of word can cause lexical confusion.

      This teacher was fired for doing his job correctly.