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Yes, fans of the Vinegartits genre, you can always pop into her blog and find grammar errors easily. I don't know how long it will take to find and post them all - stay tuned.
>I attended the board meeting on the 10th. Public TV cut out my part in citizens' forum at this meeting as it had done the previous meeting, At both I protested the unfairness of the Steve Kemp case.< My goodness!
>Ms. Elia hired a tutor for $340 a day to guide Ms. Smith in learning to treat other people as human beings. Isn't that a required [Adjectival, but still flabby passive voice.] job skill coming into a principal job?<
Aren't teachers allowed professional development? Besides, many teachers who post to your blogs don't have the required grammar and punctuation skills for a teacher job. When will you pull them up?
>This confirms teachers' maxim that at ROSSAC if youj mess up, you move up0.<
Sloppy.
>Dr. Lennard, you will recall if you have reviewed the Erwin court papers, was the principal torturer who tried to kick out a man from the school system with no pension [Laughably misplaced to modify "school system"] because he had discovered the nest of crime going on in ROSSAC and insisted on making it public.<
>One comes away from reading those boxes of Erwin documents with the conviction that protection of the crime going on then in which bid-rigging, theft of school property, slipshod building that got top dollar, and just plain stealing of money were ongoing and protected [Flabby passive voice] by the administration and board.<
Vinegartits's wordy sentences get her in trouble. Sometimes she forgets what the subject of a clause is because of all the crap in between it and its verb. Why else would she write that the protection was protected? Sheesh!
>Ms. Falliero, you will remember [Comma here] was the board member who wanted the board to get yet another raise that exceeded that of beginning teachers' pay even more than the roughly $10,000 that the board sloths presently exceed beginning teachers' salaries.<
>Ms. Edgecombe's customary chirping chatter held a seed of interesting data. If I rescued the data from the chirping, she and Mr. Valdez had taught together when she was a single mother.<
False logic. So if you hadn't rescued the data, they would not have taught together? This is a common error.
>And if teachers have a special place on the agenda, why did the little arts guy wearing a splotchy apron speak before me in the citizen's forum instead of the special teachers' forum that Ms. Olson claims exists> [Punctuate questions with question marks.] <
Yes, fans of the Vinegartits genre, you can always pop into her blog and find grammar errors easily. I don't know how long it will take to find and post them all - stay tuned.
>I attended the board meeting on the 10th. Public TV cut out my part in citizens' forum at this meeting as it had done the previous meeting, At both I protested the unfairness of the Steve Kemp case.< My goodness!
>Ms. Elia hired a tutor for $340 a day to guide Ms. Smith in learning to treat other people as human beings. Isn't that a required [Adjectival, but still flabby passive voice.] job skill coming into a principal job?<
Aren't teachers allowed professional development? Besides, many teachers who post to your blogs don't have the required grammar and punctuation skills for a teacher job. When will you pull them up?
>This confirms teachers' maxim that at ROSSAC if youj mess up, you move up0.<
Sloppy.
>Dr. Lennard, you will recall if you have reviewed the Erwin court papers, was the principal torturer who tried to kick out a man from the school system with no pension [Laughably misplaced to modify "school system"] because he had discovered the nest of crime going on in ROSSAC and insisted on making it public.<
>One comes away from reading those boxes of Erwin documents with the conviction that protection of the crime going on then in which bid-rigging, theft of school property, slipshod building that got top dollar, and just plain stealing of money were ongoing and protected [Flabby passive voice] by the administration and board.<
Vinegartits's wordy sentences get her in trouble. Sometimes she forgets what the subject of a clause is because of all the crap in between it and its verb. Why else would she write that the protection was protected? Sheesh!
>Ms. Falliero, you will remember [Comma here] was the board member who wanted the board to get yet another raise that exceeded that of beginning teachers' pay even more than the roughly $10,000 that the board sloths presently exceed beginning teachers' salaries.<
>Ms. Edgecombe's customary chirping chatter held a seed of interesting data. If I rescued the data from the chirping, she and Mr. Valdez had taught together when she was a single mother.<
False logic. So if you hadn't rescued the data, they would not have taught together? This is a common error.
>And if teachers have a special place on the agenda, why did the little arts guy wearing a splotchy apron speak before me in the citizen's forum instead of the special teachers' forum that Ms. Olson claims exists> [Punctuate questions with question marks.] <
One citizen and many teachers? Arguments can be made for either singular or plural, but the argument for plural is stronger. We know that apostrophes aren't Vinegertits's forte, but she should pick one style and stick to it. Perhaps she can't remember six words back these days.
>Ms. Elia ignored the request. I agree that middle school and grammar school teachers should get proportional representation. My six grammar-school teachers had more impact on my psyche than all the other teachers I have had put together.<
This inconsistent style is poor.
>I suspect there is academic snobbery unfolding in middle- and grammar-school teachers absence from the committees.<
Forget possessives before gerunds; La Vinegartits can't manage possessives before nouns.
>Ms. Elia's own academic record is too shoddy to warrant such shopworn prejudice against the children's grammar- school and middle-school teachers.<
Is this another floating hyphen or lack of attention to detail?
>He doesn't know Roberts Rules from a hole in the ground.<
Vinegartits doesn't know the title or how to use an apostrophe. She started to punctuate this correctly after I pulled her up on it. It appears she is marching back to the swamps of illiteracy.
>I once heard him say that teachers' applauding their colleagues violated Roberts Rules when they attended en masse to protest Ms. Elia's downloading an extra class on them without consultation or warning. <
See what I mean? Once is a typo. Twice is ignorance.
>I append Thomas's last comment to this blog.<
Well, this should be good! I'll analyse it later.
By the way, I taught Lee how to apostrophise words ending with "s". Check here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10202103&postID=7168423543492832625
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