‘BRITAIN may have an idiot for an heir to the throne and more idiots per capita than any other country in the world, but we don’t have a monopoly on idiocy by any means.
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| ‘Even I can see they’re a bunch of idiots, Pavot’ |
This morning, we salute the idiots at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Canada who told Yvan Tessier that he couldn’t attend a five-week English language immersion course because his guide dog only understood French.
The university claimed that allowing M Tessier to speak French to his dog Pavot would pollute the purity of the English-only classes.
But this morning the Indy reports that UNB has relented in the face of mass protests and a worldwide e-mail campaign.
Pavot responds to 50 commands in French but, as part of the compromise deal, M Tessier, from Fracophone Quebec, will be limited to a dozen.
University spokesman Brad James said: ‘We have 250 students from across the world who come here for the course so we have to preserve the integrity of the course for them.’
A case of the blind leading the dumb, perhaps.’
Posted: 9th, July 2004 | In: Broadsheets Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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