Thursday, May 29, 2008

Subject / verb agreement hypocrisy

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2008/05/need-job-listen-up.html

From Vinegartits's keyboard comes this:
>3. If you can make your subjects and verbs agree and have the slightest knowledge of where to put commas, give up now or disguise these skills. Those accomplishments will turn the superintendent off to your getting the job since La Elia has no idea about such useless information as the accoutrements of literacy in the education racket.<

And then this a few sentences later:
>Call for more information: 810-Mr. Linda Kipley. Or leave your application in a pumpkin on the northeast side of the parking lot, whose mouth slot contain the tear-off slogan “Property of Mr. Linda Kipley, now on a glide track to the superintendency, at which point he will shuck his old wife, La Linda, for a new model from amongst the hordes of young women school-board stenos with a favorable hip-to-waist ratio who appeal to guys who dump the faithful wife who has maneuvered their success in the education racket into high gear in Hillsborough County, Florida.<

Make your own subjects match your own verbs, bimbo. Close your quotation marks, too.

Here's a comment on this blog from one Thomas Vaughan:

>Lee

I would like to tell the story of my evaluation, my attempt to get my grievance to it heard and the so called investigation of another complaint done by Professional Standards.

May I do this on your blog?

I feel my reputation has been smeared limp passive verb and my career put in jeopardy because of one person's personal animosity toward me.

I am prepared for the criticism that may be directed at me by your readers. Good! I have made my share of mistakes. I feel I have been treated unfairly and no one will listen. The CTA has limited power. I have discovered that they can only concern itself Ewww! with specific violations of the contract, that selective documentation of a teachers performance done only to call into question his professional skills is permitted. Outright false statements can be allowed to stand. Blatant errors of interpretation of the evaluation criteria cant be challenged, even though they make it appear as though I am inconsistent in my treatment of minorities. I deeply resent that implication.

I asked my principal for feedback, she promised comma splice - a felony right Lee?to give it but failed do so. I believe this was deliberate. She accepted my lesson plans for 12 weeks and despite my specific request for feedback on them said nothing until she used them to hammer me on the evaluation. She did however mark my down for turning several of them in a day late. The whole process was a set up from day one.

I am frustrated and discouraged. I feel my employer of 14 years has let me down.

The school district has closed ranks around one of its own and I have been left out to dry. I am 100% certain that I will get the same treatment next year. Another poor evaluation and I will probably lose my job. I have had excellent evaluations from my previous supervisors. My last evaluation was 127 points and I qualified for MAP money. This year it was 97 points. Nothing about my performance changed. The only thing that changed was my supervisors decision to force me out because she doesn't like me.

I have tried to go through the proper channels to seek redress but have been stymied at every turn. I want my good name back. I will no longer hide anonymously behind my keyboard. I feel I am right and am no longer afraid.

Thomas Vaughan<

This fellow can't use an apostrophe to save himself, among other things. Let's see what Lee has to say about it. Probably nothing - she should encourage him to go for a board job with writing skills like that.

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