The Importance of Passing a Speech Test to Be a Teacher

New York City was one of the places that established in order to become a teacher, you had to pass a speech test. And if you had any trace of a foreign accent, or you had something foreign in your name, and that you were identifiably from some immigrant group, Irish or Italian or German or Jewish or whatever, that was a strike against you. The state of California did that kind of require a speech test too, in order to keep Asian students out of the teaching core. It's an old story, isn't it? It just happens over and over again. We still are trying to control our teachers.