re: #626 Aceofwhat?

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…

It would depend on the subject being taught as well. A teacher with a thick French accent trying to teach English to a Mexican immigrant could get kind of silly sometimes. On the other hand, who really cares if the math teacher has a thick Spanish accent?