Interesting Fact - Accents
A teacher in a Berkshire school was told by Ofsted inspectors to ditch her Northern accent and speak with a more southern one.
(The teacher, from Cumbria, has been set this by her school as one of her "targets" to improve performance.
Luckily they don't have a leg to stand on if they attempt to enforce this, but it is part of a worrying trend: A school in the Black Country, gave its pupils a list of ten banned regional phrases which, it said, could damage their prospects. These included "ya cor" meaning "you can't" and "ay?" instead of "pardon".
The headteacher said: "It is about getting them ready for job interviews."
They shouldn't want to work for companies that require poncy accents.)
(The teacher, from Cumbria, has been set this by her school as one of her "targets" to improve performance.
Luckily they don't have a leg to stand on if they attempt to enforce this, but it is part of a worrying trend: A school in the Black Country, gave its pupils a list of ten banned regional phrases which, it said, could damage their prospects. These included "ya cor" meaning "you can't" and "ay?" instead of "pardon".
The headteacher said: "It is about getting them ready for job interviews."
They shouldn't want to work for companies that require poncy accents.)
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