'It would be best to speak English in classrooms' - Houston Chronicle
This has a bit to relate to my other (super secret) blog post this week, " Writing in the Disciplines ," where I admittedly ranted for a while about the ignorance of some professors about what the hell writing is anyway. But I've gotten past that (for the week. A new week looms). The hub-bub here is a middle school principal (-pal: "the principal is your pal") who allegedly told students not to speak Spanish on campus. That's the line that hit the headlines with community reaction expected: Outside the board meeting, Kloecker said that the problem was Flores-Smith, not issues of culture or race. "We've been a predominantly Hispanic district for several years now," she said. "But we never had a problem until she came." Flores-Smith started the job in August. After the vote, Flores-Smith expressed satisfaction. "I'm hoping everything will die down now," she said. "We need to get back to peaceful living. And edu...