[Edling] US: NYC schools chancellor suggests buying Rosetta Stone to learn foreign languages

[Francis Hult]

New York Post



Fariña suggests buying Rosetta Stone to learn foreign languages



Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña offered startling advice to parents upset at cuts to foreign language classes: If you don’t like it, buy a $200 Rosetta Stone program so kids can teach themselves.



Fariña shocked parents at a community meeting in Inwood on Dec. 15 with her response to a complaint from the mother of a seventh-grader at Harlem’s Mott Hall School, who griped that her son’s French class had been cut from two days a week to only one.



Full story:
http://nypost.com/2015/12/23/farina-suggests-buying-rosetta-stone-to-learn-foreign-languages/
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