re: #612 Obdicut

There is a conflation of at least two things here: Whether the teacher can be understood, and whether the language acquisition from that teacher will be affected in any way.

If the teacher can’t be well understood, the language acquisition will suffer.

Sorta follows, doesn’t it? So then the question is at what point does the accent have no bearing on the teaching, not whether it is possible for an accent to affect the teaching.

Being comprehensible is a good quality in a teacher. many thick accents are tough to comprehend. again, not that this legislation is a good way to go about it…