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- From: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
- Subject: Re: Racial Discrimination in Hiring English Teachers
- In-Reply-To: ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 00:09:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <RHB.93Jan25143003@world.std.com>
- Sender: rhb@world.std.com (Robert H Brueckner)
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <23JAN93.12864650.0092@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <43988@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:30:03 GMT
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- In article <43988@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> ee52fbc@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Maiko Covington) writes:
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- How do I feel about it? I think it is terrible. I feel the
- same way I did when I interviewed for an English teaching job and
- was flatly rejected because my breasts are not big enough and I am
- ^^^^^^
- I hope this was intentional. It's one of the best puns I've seen in
- this newsgroup.
-
- quite short. Yep, I was told this directly. What on earth do the
- size of my breasts have to do with my language abilities? (Oh, so
- THAT's where the language centers are... ^_^).
- I guess the motto is, whether you are planning to teach at a
- school or study English at one, please be very careful.
-
- Maiko Covington
-
- However, I agree that breast size and other physical characteristics
- (barring speech impediments, of course) have nothing to do with
- language abilities. I couldn't resist commenting on the pun, but I
- don't want to sidetrack your very real issue here.
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- RB
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