Monday, March 16, 2009

Vinegartits hits The Wall

From The Wall blog:

http://call-in-6.blogspot.com/2007/03/random-thoughts-board-meeting-mar13.html

>In fact, every administrator making over $100,000 should kick in at least $40,000 of her/his bloated paychecks to the budget crisis.

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In fact, where is the CTA ever when teachers need it to stand up to the administration? <

Do you know the facts? State them. Strunk &White insists you do.


>Her [Elia] salary represents an insult to teachers and students since she can't punctuate and doesn't show any sign of learning this literacy requirement for anyone's working in education.<

Is that so? How's this, then?
>Ms. Elia got over $10,000 raise at the same time the teachers got peanuts Separate two independent clauses with a comma and the bus drivers get third-world salaries and drive broken-down buses with not enough mechanics to fix them.<

>Massachussetts has a state law that mandates all administrators take the same literacy tests as do teachers. That requirement would clean out at least half of the current ROSSAC administration illiterati.<

And were it enforced, quite a few teachers too, I'd imagine. Thomas What's-an-apostrophe Vaughan would be the first.



>Even as catch-up, the "raise" was meager compared to bloated administration salaries.<

Facts.
1. This should be "compared with".
2. Strunk & White says that it should be "compared with".
3. I told Vinegartits here http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2007/06/tampa-tribune-editorial-editor-goudreau.html that it should be "compared with".
4. Vinegartits agreed with me here http://grammargrinch.blogspot.com/2007/06/tampa-tribune-editorial-editor-goudreau.html that it should be "compared with".
5. Vinegartits is too stupid to get it right. She is illiterate.

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