A Florida teacher who speaks no Spanish is suing her employer for discrimination, after the school rejected her for a job that required teaching an hour of Spanish per day. Third grade teacher Tracy Rosner filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit against the Miami-Dade County School Board, claiming that her race – white – prevented her from getting the job. The school rejected her request because it requires that reading and language arts instructors of the EFL program speak Spanish, said the lawsuit. Related: Remember the ice bucket challenge? Rosner’s lawyers said she was denied the job “because of her race and national origin as a Non-Hispanic individual who was not a fluent and native Spanish-speaker.”Rosner said the school could have given her the position and had another instructor teach the Spanish component.

Source: The Guardian July 27, 2016 05:37 UTC