[etni] Native English Speakers

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Native English speakers have the edge over non-natives in two respects that 
come to mind right now: idioms and pronunciation. I have heard non-native 
teachers say "make their homework" and "bleck," and made "flood" rhyme with 
"food," as I have heard native English-speaking teachers who have, in a sense, 
gone native and say "or...or" instead of "either...or," and "the man that his 
car hit ours." But yes, regardless of whether the children are "native 
speakers," which almost none of them ever is, or those who are still struggling 
to differentiate between b and d (in the 12th grade), it is far preferable to 
have native speakers of English as English teachers, native speakers of Hebrew 
as Hebrew teachers, people with degrees in math as math teachers, people with 
degrees in history as history teachers. That's part of what "good education" 
means. Without the Zionism, please, I would like to see kids who turn into 
young adults who go to university and don't have to cheat on exams or photocopy 
entire notebooks at the end of the semester.  Which isn't going to happen in 
this country, not in my lifetime, at any rate.  But that is the public school 
system. If those Wall Street people are a private company, they can impose any 
employment condition they see fit, whether it is language level or having a car 
or eye color or whatever. 
Elizabeth 
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