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International standards | Palu, Sulawesi

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August 20, 2010

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Olympus Trip 35 | Fuji 400H
This high school's administrators had decided they wanted the school to be rated on some international scale I wasn't familiar with. The standards apparently meant a certain number of classes needed to be taught in English. These were biology teachers who now had to learn to explain their subject in a foreign language, and somehow make their students understand the complexities as well. It made absolutely no sense to me.

The school had posted these "inspirational" signs around the corridors, so for my first class with Easy English, Jimmy had me explain what was grammatically incorrect about each one.

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