Some Institutions Have No Capacity to Adapt
Some education institutions are run by monkeys, I swear to God.
Yvan Tessier wants to enroll in an English language immersion program at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. To enroll you have to sign a pledge stating that you will only speak in English during the enrollment period. Yvan has a problem with that pledge.
Yvan is blind, and has a seeing eye dog, named Pavot. The problem is that Pavot is trained to respond to 17 commands in French. The school administration insisted that he sign a contract promising that "all communication with your guide dog will be exclusively in English."
The administration claims that allowing someone like Yvan to speak French in the immersion program would be lowering their standards to an unacceptable level.
"We cannot lower a standard," said Susan Mesheau, the university's director of public relations. "'OK, you're a nice guy, I'll lower it for you. You might not be as good an engineer. You might build bridges that people can fall off of, but that's OK.' That's silliness. Academic standards are academic standards."
I'm sorry, but I know of no one that ever died because someone pronounced an English word with a French accent.
Assclowns.