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Brit primary school staff to get English lessons to rid them of their slang | Primary school staff in Britain are to be given English lessons because their accents, poor grammar and use of slang are hampering the education of pupils. Ofsted
inspectors
decided to carry out the lessons for staff after two teaching assistants at Trosnant
Junior School in Havant, near Portsmouth, were found to have a weak grasp of
written
and spoken English. They claim the assistants' strong accents and use of slang
were hampering children's learning. "Adults do not always demonstrate grammatical
accuracy in speaking and writing," the Daily Mail quoted their report as stating.
It cited the phrase "I likes football" as an example, and gave the school 12 months
to improve. Now, a consultant has been drafted in to teach staff to use 'the Queen's
English in the classroom'. Headmaster Jim Hartley admitted there was a problem
with the use of regional dialect, known as 'Pompey slang', in the classroom. "This
is not denigrating the Pompey accent or dialect - we are all proud of where we
come from," he said. "I accept however that bad grammar is not acceptable in the
classroom, which is why we have taken the inspectors' criticisms constructively,"
he added. A building society has introduced grammar lessons for staff after senior
executives found recent graduates could not write properly. "Youngsters cannot
be expected to improve their English if they are set a bad example by the adults
who are supposed to be teaching them," Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real
Education,
stated. Leeds Building Society has recruited a retired teacher to introduce a
'more formal and consistent approach' to writing.
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