Just over 1m English-language staff teach over 200m Chinese pupils, a heroic, if mind-boggling, teacher-pupil ratio.
Sloppy contract language, staff turnover, incomplete paperwork and stressful combat conditions on the ground led to a badly flawed process, senior Army officials in Washington said.
In this context, the comment about the language staff used was an indicator of the lack of respect shown, which included a shower room where the curtain rail was broken and people's body shapes could be seen through the frosted glass.
Stephanie LaFroscia said that "the changing community is a challenge to us, we are now serving different families, not just Latino families who speak English or Spanish, there are also languages the staff doesn't speak".
Native speakers of each of these languages on staff, who are familiar with NHANES, review the professional translations to be sure the meaning of the questions or phrases come through properly.
The Voice of America's previous Arabic-language programming, which had been broadcast on shortwave, has been canceled; almost all the Arabic-language news staff has been dispatched to work at Radio Sawa.
But specialist English language support staff at UK universities admit that the data they currently have on the performance of foreign students studying in English as a second language is limited and inconclusive, with some claiming that institutions are failing to give adequate and targeted support.
Whether that is using science lessons to examine the role of food in fuelling the body, or highlighting the importance of exercise during PE, issues around healthy body image have to be integrated across the board – including in the language that staff use around students.
For any such change to occur, non-language trained staff must be able to identify examples of the features that they expect their students to access.
He had been responding to allegations in court papers that he had also driven drunk, used racially abusive language, threatened staff and consorted with a woman suspected of working as a prostitute.
