Congratulations, Thomas Vaughan.

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I always knew there was something a bit vinegartitsy about our Thomas.

>In documenting her last "walk-through" she [his principal] accurately pointed out that I was at my desk conferring with a student and that my kids were working on an outline of the chapter but described a Graphic Organizer on my whiteboard as a Venn Diagram. A small point perhaps but The Venn Diagram is made up of two or more overlapping figures, usually circles. They are often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets.<

>My own Principal doesn't know the difference between a Venn diagram and a table. <

Is this it? He discredits his principal because she doesn't know the difference? How does he know that she doesn't know the difference? She may have only made a mistake.

He seldom uses an apostrophe correctly, yet he rabbits on about (in his own words) a small point. And yes, it is a small point. He's as pathetic as Lee with the your/you're thing.

(By the way, a Venn diagram need not overlap. Thomas had better brush up on Venn diagrams himself.)


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By the way, I think Lee's your/you're fetish concerns Hamilton, not Lamb. It's not that I particularly care, I just figure I'd tell you before she or one her henchmen accuse you of being illiterate for such a minor error.

And why does Vaughan capitalize "vendiagram" and "graphic organizer"?

I think that Venn diagrams are named after Mr Venn as an Edison screw, a Pythagorean theorem and an Achilles heel are named after people. Thanks for pointing out that it was Hamilton. Confusing Hamilton and Lamb is nearly as bad as confusing "your" and "you're".