a teacher who can't pronounce words properly and she's teaching 2nd grade reading and writing?

Question

my child has a 2nd grade teacher who can't phonetically say the words properly. why is she teaching that class?

it's one thing to come over here and have an accident. my hat goes off to anyone who has done that. this is about someone born and raised in the usa, went to school and was given a teachers certificate. she should be able to speak the words properly. how she speaks to older children who have already mastered the sounds of the english language is not my concern. she is incorrectly pronouncing words that they are learning and hearing for the first time.

i meant to say accent, but maybe it really is an "accident"

Answer 1

It's simple. Those who can DO. Those who can't TEACH. Anyone with enough brains to really do the job is also smart enough to have a REAL job. This teacher, like 99.9% of all public employees is clutching retirement in one hand and covering her butt with the other. Your child's education will begin after he/she graduates high school. Meanwhile, you have the responsibility to do what my parents did. Get your kid to READ. Even "gifted" teachers can't spoil a kid who reads.

Answer 2

I have to wonder what you mean by this. Does she have an accent, a regional dialect, or an ethnic approach to speaking? Or is it just that she has no concept of what words should sound like? Does she do this constantly, or have there been one or two examples of it?

When I was that age, my mother, a recent immigrant, couldn't pronounce words properly. I therefore started school with some odd ideas about pronunciation, which were quickly dispelled by my friends. I don't love it, but even our President frequently mispronounces words, some of them, like nuclear, repeatedly.

The point is that we all have some flaws. This is not the only person your child is exposed to, and she will hear these same words from others, who pronounce them differently. It is a good lesson in tolerance to explain to her that even though we do it differently, that doesn't give us the right to think we are better than others.

Answer 3

you need to go talk with the Principal and most likely he/she won't really listen to you so the bast thing to do is call all the other parents in your kids class gather them and go to the principal all together!!
worst thing that might happen is take your kids to another class and give her other children
and even if her accent was wrong cz she's come from somewhere else she still shouldn't be teaching 2nd graders!!!

Answer 4

She was hired by the Board because she is someone in the school systems niece, cousin, daughter.

She could be in the Union and it is very hard to fire someone in the Union.

Answer 5

Got me!