Haitian Student Says: French Is The Reason I am Failing

I share that student dellema in that situation.

As he has explained he understands what he is reading in french and he's having a problem expressing it in french.

I beleive the education's system is failing this guy and that nobody can really come to a conclusion that " we must redefine our education "I do realy feel sorry for him. But I must also add if that kid comes to America, I can bet you my bottom dollar he will speak english in 3 months and will forget to express himself in creole.

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I agree with you Franck.

I don't promote mediocrity.

It's not laziness, it's rather mediocrity.

A cancre prof, cancre

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How in the world can teachers give proper instructions to students when they tehmselves are so dumb. In Haiti now a day anyone can teach.

I studied in Haiti and can speak french PROPERLY, CORRECTLY even after many years living in an english speaking country.

Out of curiousity, how come when they come here they master english even with just 2 years of grammar classes.

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Not too long ago my friends and I we went to a foreign conference, As I shared my struggle with them they do the same as well some of them from Africa some from other country which i choose not to mentioned.

i was telling them how they forced us to speak or use a language that not even ours and in the other side we neglect our own language which creole, they shared the same struggle with me, the thing is, we dont want to admit it but it's true on est sous la domination de la langue francaise, point final.

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I agree with that kid to some extent and totally understand him! I was lucky enough to have had two teachers in Haiti that made a great impact on me before I even knew that it's better to understand the school materials than to recite them. I always had an issue with reciting something I couldn't explain.

With that said, it's not the French Language that's failing him but rather the teacher as a couple of you mentioned.

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It would be great if the change would be made in Haiti for the children to be taught in Creole and French.

It beneficial to the individual, society and the nation as whole.

Because Creole is viewed and contunually portrayed as a "peasant", "lesser", "unintellectual" language, it has great negative effects on the population.

I hope the change is made during my lifetime.

In the meantime continue to celebrate our mother

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I agree with you, French is not the reason the student fails, the teacher is the reason, because he does not know how to teach the children in a way that they could understand the subject and do their home work and answer the questions in their own words.

We have too many teachers who are not trained, qualified and that's why our children are failing.

First of all, I never agreed with that decision that Mr Bernard, Minister of Education then took for Education in Haiti be done in Creole, while he and his colleagues, talking for our children in Haiti to be educated in Creole sent their children to France and Sorbonne to study.

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The problem is not from the French language.

We need to figure out some other factors.

ECONOMIC difficulties are the sources of all the problems.

Empty tammies of students and teachers paralyze the function of their brains.Nevertheless, speaking French might cause other positive or negative apppearance such as connection to some development, since France has forgotten

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Woodring, we all went to that road for our education and we succeeded some of us with brio. When we go to a foreign country with a foreign language we still succeed.

No

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