Is having an accent a flaw? Arizona Board of Education think so

Why would someone who isn't English be expected to be fluent and accent-free? This is because of assimilation and what happens when English is the primarily language we all speak as United States Citizens.

Although the Spanish came to America before the English, English is still dominating and those who speak with an accent are not allowed to teach. English is not the most spoken language in the world, so why would it be in a diverse country like America?

Is having to learn proper English oppressive? Hell, the fuck yeah it is.

English is the hardest language to learn because it is stripped from sound, rhythm and is basic as hell. The only people that should be speaking English are those from England, nothing more nothing less. English is only dominating if it has something to do with the global workforce that you at some point will have to be subject to.

Do babies speak with an accent?

This Article, I found interesting, the way we speak, begins in the brain.

Do babies speak with an accent?

"Kuhl observed that the infants were more responsive to the sounds of their own language than to the sounds of other foreign languages—even before they were able to speak themselves. She discovered that babies as young as one year acquire the specific accented sounds of their parents and that the first year of listening makes a lasting impact on the way we speak for our entire lives. As she told Smithsonian magazine, “Our research shows that a kernel of that pattern of speaking begins to form in the brain well before actual production of speech". Read more here