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From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
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Date: 12 Jan 89 19:45:45 GMT
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In article <3062@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
 writes:
>[...]Also, on the end of quarter teacher evaluations that students fill out,
>one of the questions is "Do you think the instructor has adequate skills in
>English"

The trouble with that question is that most students are simply incabable
of evaluating anybody's English (or Amerish :-) skills. They confuse
command of language with having the local accent. I refuse to have
anybody who cannot write a correct sentence in the comments field
evaluating anybody's English skills.
-- 
It is the man not the method that                 Nath
solves the problem.                     vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu
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