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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 56 points 1 month ago (5 children)

A Teacher in Utah was fired for writing an educational blog post about homophones.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blogger-fired-homophones_n_5637873

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I swear, I've been thinking there's nothing from the US that can surprise me anymore, but this did get me.

How can there be no-one there in any position of power to ask "wtf are you doing"?

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

The thing that really gets me about this story is it was an ESL School. The students were mostly adults learning to speak English. Not only should an ESL school understand the English language well enough to know what a homophone is, homophones are an extremely important concept for non-native English speakers because that kind of word can cause lexical confusion.

This teacher was fired for doing his job correctly.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He isn't a teacher he's a social media provocateur I would take that story with a huge grain of salt.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, none of it makes sense. Why would any teacher not immediately file a lawsuit, unless they're not a teacher and they're trying to drum up "engagement"? But hey, just like the story in the OP, no need to ask questions because it jibes with my point of view!

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe he realized he didn't want to work with a dip shit boss anymore? I wouldn't want to either.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Christ it's the pediatrician named Peter Phile from Brasseye. Satire is dead.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Homophobes? Pronouns? SEEMS one sided to me.

Teach the kids Heterophobes too.

Give both sides: pro-nouns and pro-verbs.

Stop with this culture war in our SCHOOLS.

[–] cactopuses@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"may see the ‘homo’ side and think it has something to do with gay sex."

Better not let him see assume, class, bass (ironically a homophone) or many other words with such scandalous suffixes lol