Issues, no. Grammar bullying, yes.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/07/council-of-trent-aka-as-hillsborough.html

Lee's lame points can be easily refuted as usual. However, while she is busy picking on one lonely typo (her writing is regularly riddled with them) she shows us that she can't construct a sentence.

Mr. Practising as a good American that citizens have a First-Amendment right to abuse elected officials when they approach them for redress of grievances.

Now, the point was this: Is the poster qualified to make judgements as a matter of law?

Who wrote what?

Lee meant to carve up a poster on Goadr's blog, but she hasn't yet worked out that it is Goader's writing she is dissecting. Shhhhh ... I think she is sleeping.

http://es-kay.net/?p=1182&cpage=1#comment-3013

Beyond the homophone problem pointed out by one writer above, Ms. Gladstone needs help with punctuation and grammar.

Inviting the reader’s indulgence of her slapdash performance is graceless and unprofessional.
A comma goes after “Spell Check” inside the quotation marks for the introductory adverbial clause. In addition, “750 plus” and “less than one percent” are hyphenated adjectives before a noun.

There exists no justification for the quotation marks around “onstage.” Ms. Gladstone does not use the word in a special sense; she uses it in its ordinary sense.

“The teacher being” should be “the teacher’s being”: possessive before the gerund.
“This” in the next-to-the-last sentence of the second-from-the-bottom paragraph has no antecedent.

I consider Ms. Gladstone’s breezy, self-indulgent excuse for illiteracy in herself and in any teacher unacceptable. There is no reason why this teacher or other teachera could not have learned grammar and punctuation in their formal educational career of twelve or more years.
Ms. Gladstone’s error-ridden performance shows that she should get out her 9th-grade grammar primer and study it from cover to cover. To teach, she must catch up on what she failed to learn during her education years.

The correct use of language forms the basis of education. If a person cannot master grammar and punctuation in classrooms over the years of his or her formal education, that person does not belong in the classroom as a teacher.

Illiterate teachers produce illiterate students.

However, to add bonhomie to this criticism, I will join Ms. Gladstone in her moldy solecism: I ain’t kidding, folks.

Lee Drury De Cesare

Abuse, abuse, and more abuse.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/update-on-kemp-case-for-minions-of.html


>I doubt that practice of leaving the restraints on in class meets Florida restraint standards, but the administrative staff did not recommend the aide to Professional Standards. <

You had better keep looking through those standards, then. A restraint restrains. I'm no expert, but if a harness is left on, it doesn't atually do any restraining until it is attached to something. I'll guess that the old aide left the harness on all day but never used it to restrain the student to a chair. When you find out the facts, let the Minions of Light know.


>At this juncture the administrative trio of Smiley, Morris, and Sosa entered the room, and one of the women said she "didn't want to lose my job" when she spotted the harness restraining the student while Steve engaged in securing the other student. <

Yes, this was the point I was making. I'm glad that Lee thinks similarly.


>I have filed charges for child abuse against Smiley, Sosa, Morris, and Kipley--the last-named for for abetting the child abuse by not investigating my charge and not even acknowledging that she got it, which prolonged the danger to the children under the care of the three negligent administrators and the aide who did not remove the restraints when they entered the room in the morning. <

Steve Kemp assures us all that no abuse occurred. Lee has changed her tune from "potential abuse" back to "abuse". Plus, now Lee writes that the aide was negligent for not removing the harness and is therefore worthy of having a child-abuse charge filed against him or her.

I love exploring the issues!

>Ms. Griffin, who poses as teachers' friend did not show herself as much of a friend to teachers or to special-needs students either in this demonstration of her wanting to escape from the responsibility of dealing with it. <

Close your parenthesis, you illiterate bozo.

Deemed to be a danger.

I have been held to task for quoting things out of context. I will make a direct quote, only to have someone tell me that I miss the overall tone, gist, vibe, or whatever has been written. Would that writers actually wrote what they mean clearly rather than relying on readers to pick up the general feeling.

Here is an example from Lee's blog. She makes the bits she likes red. Luckily, the writer of the original article makes Phyliss's position clear. I'll make it red too, but bigger.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/update-on-kemp-case-for-minions-of.html

A new report on the issue of restraints and seclusion of special education students show widespread use in public schools throughout the nation. Some child rights and education rights advocates believe that the restraints amount to abuse and neglect of these students. Furthermore, the use of these restraints often times causes serious personal injuries and the wrongful death of special education students.

Under Florida law, school officials can restrain a special education student who is deemed to be a danger to themselves or others in the school environment. Muscumeci and others believe that Florida law is too vague and that children are often restrained when there is no danger at all to themselves or others. In public schools, some students are restrained for convenience of the teacher or staff rather than for the safety and welfare of the student. You can read more about Phyliss Muscumeci's efforts and the problems of restraints of special education students at Child Advocacy Groups and Mom Seek to End Restraints of Special Education Students in Florida and Other States.

http://www.floridachildinjurylawyer.com/2009/01/national_advocacy_group_and_fl_1.html

Damn you, passive voice. Deemed by whom? The teacher? The aide? The administration? The parents? The janitor?

Interesting stuff. Especially the bit about "believe to be abuse".

She did write "abuse", didn't she?

Her sentiments will now remain in the classic quotes section.

Hang on! Maybe she was told she had no standing because everyone knew that abuse didn't happen - even Goader himself! Filing a charge of abuse would be ludicrous when even the teacher aide maintains that no abuse (nix, nada, none, ixnay on the abusay, etc.) occurred.

I think Kipley must have been saving Lee the humility of being shot down by the person she was rooting for.

Ring ring ... ring ring ... Click. Hello? Hello, Kettle. This is Pot.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-newsweek-list-of-best-high-schools.html

The board looks the other way and allows the outrages against teachers to go on. The head of the Professional Standards is a woman with a home-ec degree who doesn't know how to punctuate; the administration just hired her husband, who has a high school degree. for an accounting position that required a bachelor's degree and experience. which four of the applicants have. This was payoff for all the dirty work the Professional Standards head has done for the superintendent and board, one infers.

Come on. At least get your own punctuation correct in the same sentence that you slam others.

The hypocrisy.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/postcards-from-edge.html

Here is the steaming turd in the water pipe from Lee's response.

I write:
Now, you've written that any citizen can file a complaint if they know of abuse, and also that most child abuse is inferred not known.

Lee's responds:
That's right.

(Lee has a rant here to distract.)

I write:
Would you therefore support someone who saw Kemp keeping those retarded children in a junk-filled room, inferred from the available evidence that abuse was occurring, and filed a complaint?

Lee responds:
I would not.

Hypocrite. Either you support someone who infers child abuse and files a complaint or you don't. Make up your mind.

Lee can't infer her way out of a wet paper bag.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/postcards-from-edge.html


For goodness' sake! We're all meant to accept that Lee Drury de Cesare can infer the finer points of child abuse cases and legislation, yet she can't infer that John__D is Antigrammargrinch. I think I'm about to give up on this dopey cow.

I can't be bothered colour-coding it all. Look at her blog for her edits.

(Many accept that the pronoun "they" can be singular. If I've got to move up from mangled homophones, Vinegartits had better move up from this. )



Gentle Readers: Here is another anti-lee specimen that makes AntiGrammargrinch look like one of the seraphim. I attract the strangest people. lee

-----Original Message----- From: John__D [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:58 AM To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on I Nevcr Take the Fifth. John__D has left a new comment on your post "I Nevcr Take the Fifth": >

I know in all senses that the three administrators named allowed, even promoted, child abuse of the severely retarded children.< ____________________________________________________- John D wades in:

This is a strong call about what you know. As for my protecting child abusers, you infer too much. I think you're doing Steve Kemp more harm than good. You write that his was "an innocent mistake by [what I presume is] an uninformed teacher" and also that the three administrators were guilty of abuse by putting disabled children in a room with junk lining the walls. Good. You got angled parentheses around an editorial comment in a quote right.

All Steve has to do is tell me so, and I will stop. I think keeping his case in the limelight has made the ROSSAC thugs deal with it a fairer way than they would have had nobody knew about it and had everything gone on behind closed doors as is the usual mode.

I believe that if Steve's case had not been publicized, he would be fired by now and trying to scare up a way to make a living to feed himself and keep a roof over his head.

Lack of attention to the thuggeries of ROSSAC when it wants to get rid of somebody was Mr. Erwin's problem. Nobody knew his case was going on and how the administration and board colluded to shut him up about crime on school grounds that various higher ups probably profited from and shut him down by firing him and depriving him of his pension.

I wish I had been doing Mr. E's PR. People would have known what a dirty deal the administration and board were pulling off in plain view with no audience but poor Mr. Erwin, the victim. I am glad he finally gave up on the system and took the ROSSAC thugs and the board to court and won his Whistleblower suit because the jury did not believe the board's and administration's lies. Nobody would if they heard them. The taxpayers paid $165,000 for board and administration crime.

That "innocent mistake" was abuse, wasn't it? I'll be honest and admit that all I know is what I've read on blogs - but if someone specifically trained for the job had done the same thing that Steve Kemp had innocently done, they Pronoun-antecedent disagreement would have been child abusers in your eyes, wouldn't they?

It's a contingency question. I would need to know all the data. One could say that this is another instance of the administration's and board's dopey management skills. It is OK for the boys to be restrained on the bus but not in the classroom. I'd like somebody to try to justify that disparity.

And one of these "boys," the one Goader was chasing while he hooked the lighter one to a chair while he chased the big fellow to try to keep him from escaping into the hall, weighed 175 pounds.

The administrators left the disabled children in a junk-filled room? So did Steve Kemp, didn't he?

No, he stayed in there with the retarded children and tried to keep them from pulling the stuff down on their or other people's heads and tried to conduct a class in whatever the retarded children do in class.

I don't believe that this fact is disputed by any party, is it?

I don't dispute it, but I would insist on giving it context.

It's a despicable situation, but Steve Kemp was there doing his best as a teacher while letting disabled children stay in that junk-filled room and, by your standards, abusing them.

Steve is not litigious. I am. I would have screamed bloody murder and perhaps called the cops if I had thought of it.

Now, you've written that any citizen can file a complaint if they (he or she knows) know of abuse, (no comma: You separate coordinate subordinate "that' noun clauses.) and also that most child abuse is inferred (comma for contrasting element) not known.

That's right. I got an email recently from a fellow who says an administrator in one of the schools lures boys into his office to have them take off their shoes so that he can play with their feet. He asked me what to tell the mother to do, that he is afraid the administration would cover it up if he told her to bring it to ROSSAC. They would: the guy is percipient. I told him to help the mother bring this issue straight to the State Education Committee's Professional Standards and Ethics Committees. I told the fellow (a teacher) to stick with the mother to buck her up and not to let her waiver.

This foot-fetish administrator is not a genital pedophile, but he may be working up to it. How do I know? I infer it. I am a nurse and have read a bazillion psychiatric case histories and every word Freud has written on pedophilic fetishes among all the other pathologies people suffer. I am afraid this guy will get away with this preliminary activity with the boys' feet and amp up his pedophilia.

Look what hideous things happened to the children in the Irish schools for poor children run by Christian Brothers and Sisters of Mercy. The Christian Brothers taught my husband in high school. The Sisters of Mercy rant the hospital where I trained as a nurse.

Foot fetishism has a long sexist history. The foot-binding practices of the Orient come under this fetish. The men didn't want the women to be able to run away if they wanted to rape them. Answer: bind the girls' feet when they are babies so that the foot doesn't grow normally and cripple the girls' locomotion.

Don't try to pull another Sgt. Joe Friday again on me and grill me. I will post your emails but will not answer them. I won't answer you or anybody on this foot case.

Would you therefore support someone who saw Kemp keeping those retarded children in a junk-filled room, inferred from the available evidence that abuse was occurring, and filed a complaint?

I would not. Steve had the situation thrust upon him; he did not create it. The ones who put the classroom for the retarded children in a dangerous, junk-filled room are guilty of directed child abuse.

I welcome feedback on these comments from you or your readers. I will stand corrected on anything I have misconstrued, but I think (know?) that I'm on the money. If you want administrators' heads to roll, Steve Kemp as the actual doer of the action will have to watch his head roll too if you get your way.

No, he won't, sugarbritches. Not as long as I can stand on a podium and squawk and pull myself up to a CRT screen and compose stirring defenses of him to the state bureaucracy. I shall flail away until Steve says he no longer wants my help.

Your case is one of hunger for attention. I infer--bordering on knowing--that you did not get enough attention as a child. So you want Granny Lee's attention now. Do I know this for sure? No, but I am betting on my intuition.

I will bet my three best pairs of Manola Blahniks that I am onto your personality disorder. Don't disesteem intuition. It is the inchoate intelligence we all have but can't attach analytic terms to. It's the gut feelings of our innards telling us what's really going on outside. Women have intuitive skills more than men because women are lucky enough not to take themselves as seriously as guys do, and women take care of people all their lives from babies to dying parents and grandparents. Women are at home in emotion mine fields.

I want as many people as possible to have blogs about the school system--especially teacher blogs because teachers see the schools from the inside. The schools are now run by a bunch of thugs and need as much attention trained on the thugs as possible.

You should have your own blog and come to the school board meetings and watch the board, ask for public-information documents from the Public Affairs Office, and speak out. Don't try to make me your Charlie McCarthy. I won't play that role again. lee

Let's sort out an issue, then.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-nevcr-take-fifth.html

I get a post dedicated to my question after posting it here.

I'll avoid levity. There is a possible typo that hinders my comprehension. Was Kemp a uniformed teacher or an uninformed teacher. This is a serious question, and a straight answer is important to me.

Does your post answer my question? Not directly, no. But as you write that "one does not see most child abuse", you seem to be writing that no one sees it and that no one could therefore know.

I'll make my question clearer based on your post, and I'll ask that you remember that you allege that I'm a Stanford-Binet lower-quartile dweller when you draft your answer.

Did you know the abuse occurred, or did you infer it?

a) You knew it.
b) You inferred it.





John D: The three administrators against whom I filed Professional Standards charges not only disrespected Steve and tried to turn his innocent mistake by an uniformed teacher into a crime, but they themselves all three--Smiley, Sosa, and the other one whose name I get mixed up (Morris, I think)--also put severely disabled children into a room with junk piled on the walls, an accident-prone situation.

And they threw Kemp into taking care of these children without paying any attention to his lack of training to care for severely retarded children--his specialty is teaching reading to children who have trouble with the skill. They as well didn't give him a word of orientation or make themselves available for consultation as their job descriptions say they should. That administrative behavior constitutes child abuse in my book.

And the Secretary of Education's Professional Matters committee online says both teachers and administrators are liable to lose their licensces for child abuse--not just teachers. In addition, it does not mention a qualification to file a complainte except the knowledge that a child or children were abused. Ms. Kipley probably with Ms. Elia's help as well as that of Linda Cobbe made up the "standing" objection to my filing the charge. One does not appear on the Secretary of State's site for Professional Behavior breaches.

One does not see most child abuse. He or she infers it when seeing evidence of child abuse as I did when I was an emergency-room nurse, or people infer it from other situations such as the one I describe above involving Kemp and the careless administrators. I also witnessed child abuse when I worked as court observer for domestic violence for almost a year in Pinellas County courts.

I hope this answers your question. lee drury de cesare


John__D has left a new comment on your post "Sherlock Holmes Rides Again": >I need also to know where you got your information that I do not have "standing" to file a Professional Standards charge. The written material you sent me does not mention such impediment. The Secretary of State's Web site's Professional Practices Section says otherwise. The Education Secretary's language suggests anybody who knows of child abuse should report it.

Why I seldom could be bothered to comment on the issues: censorship! Vinegartits flushes the First Amendment.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/sherlock-holmes-rides-again.html

I left a comment on this blog entry, quoting Lee from here.
http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/ground-skirmishes-to-defend-democracy.html

"I need also to know where you got your information that I do not have "standing" to file a Professional Standards charge. The written material you sent me does not mention such impediment.

The Secretary of State's Web site's Professional Practices Section says otherwise. The Education Secretary's language suggests anybody who knows of child abuse should report it."

I didn't keep a copy of the post, but I suggested that the key word is "knows". After all, that's what even the mighty English teacher of 28 years inferred from the website.

I opined that Kipley, Cobbe and whoever else alleges that Lee has no "standing" may have done so because to have "standing" to file a complaint, one must "know" something: not "have heard", "think" or "assume". (This is naturally speculation on my part, and I can't speak for Kipley et al.)

I then asked Lee how she "knows" that that abuse took place. She has not published my post or replied.

Her silence shouldn't incriminate her, but it makes me wonder. Normally this cow is never lost for words. You'd think she would have cut me down with some witty retort.

To all my detractors who have asked why I don't comment about issues, I say this: when I asked a genuine question about an issue, Vinegartits clammed up and censored me to boot. I invite all of you to suggest how Lee "knows" of the abuse about which she filed a complaint.

Until then or until she answers my question, I'll use my First Amendment right to say that based on the evidence she doesn't "know" diddly squat.

Gerunds 101

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/bullies-complaining-about-bullies.html

Bart, who is gay, had gay students' telling him they wanted to commit suicide because of the bullying they endured in the schools.

This is obviously ridiculous. What would one do here?

Bart had gay students tell him they wanted to commit suicide.

That's right; no apostrophe. "Tell" functions as a verb. "Telling" functions as a participle.

>Since this school was in Olson's district, I wrote her to complain about this teacher with his Bible's torturing the gay student.<

This is just as stupid. The Bible obviously wasn't doing any torturing.

>Nor did she fulfill a promise to Bart Birdsall to attend to a gay student being bullied at the time when she was sending out asinine emails to people complaining about a teacher with a Bible on his desk torturing a gay boy by telling him he would land in hell for being gay.<

See? Is it the desk's torturing? A teacher's torturing? Could she be bothered following her own stupid rules?

She could have nearly argued the first one, but she's illiterate, so she missed it.


>I am never one to suffer obnoxious public servants in silence. I wrote back to La Olson with one of my crisper rebukes and called the principal. She stopped the teacher from torturing the student and made him remove the Bible from his desk, good administrator that she was.

Suddenly, bullying is getting not only local but national attention, and things are looking up for abused children. This is no thanks to board members like Ms. Olson who has sat on the board forever and never raised a finger to intervene, although she promised Bart Birdsall that she would.<

This is bizarre. Olson never intervenes, but she intervened when the teacher was torturing the student. This is flawed.

Ms. Olson, Dr. Lamb, and Ms. Kurdell, all on the board when Dr. Lennard and his two ghouls Hamilton and Davis, were systematically torturing Mr. Erwin, trying to run him crazy, claiming his was crazy, trying to fire him, and trying to deprive him of his pension until Mr. Erwin shut them down with the jury's help in his Whistleblower suit against the board.

Another comma would have offset "Hamilton and Davis". This one comma separates the verb from its subject. There is no excuse for this one. As Vinegartits writes, "You don’t have “personal choices” in where to put punctuation, Sugarbritches. You either [sic] put the commas in the right place, or you are illiterate."

I wish her granddaughter luck with her teaching career. I hope that grammar hypocrisy isn't hereditary.

Apostroph-Lee

http://es-kay.net/?p=1137

>... Tom Galagher said that the reason Steve had got no notice of the charges’s end was that his lawyer and the board lawyer had “settled it months ago.” I didn’t get that impression from reading Steve’s blog. I understood him to say he learned that his charge was at an end when he read his name on a class schedule for next fall. lee drury de cesare<

She still doesn't get it, the illiterate bozo. I've already taught her how to show possession of regular plurals. There's no way I'd sit next to her on the bus.

Now, who's the liar?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/antigrammargrinch-surfaces-again.html

Lee Drury de Cesare is a damned liar. I've got this email, and it reads grown-up's. (See the post below.)

I've a message for the anonymous poster who is littering Casting-Room Couch at the moment: You can accuse people of lying all you like, but I've got proof that Vinegartits edits her emails before she posts them on her blog. What else do you think she edits? She isn't honest enough to stand by what she has written.

She's gutless.

Surfaced? I never left.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/antigrammargrinch-surfaces-again.html

This is laughable. Vinegartits confused the homophones “it’s” and “its” in her recent email to Linda Cobbe. I emailed the entire list to alert everyone to Vinegartits’s homophone illiteracy, and sent a cc to Vinegartits herself. Vinegartits tries to rip into my grammar and syntax, but fails miserably. Read this!

I wrote this:
Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for if she can't master simple English language concepts and is clearly illiterate.

Lee wrote:
>Antigrammargrinch expresses himself thusly [“thus” is already an adverb]:"... if she can't master simple English language concepts and is clearly illiterate." This locution should read "...if she can't master simple English (hyphenate for two words acting as a single adjective before a noun) language concepts, she is clearly illiterate."<

Those ellipses are misleading, Vinegartits. Your readers don’t know what has been elided. They would assume that “she is clearly illiterate” is the principal clause. I thought it was odd that I would have made such an error until I checked my email.

My principal clause is “Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for”. I added an adverbial subordinate clause of condition with a compound predicate.

My sentence reads thus:

Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for if she can't master simple English language concepts and [if she] is clearly illiterate.


You, Vinegartits, are changing the meaning of what I wrote. I wrote that you don’t have the mental capacity if you can’t master concepts and that you don’t have the mental capacity if you are clearly illiterate. I was not writing that you were illiterate because you can’t master the concepts; I was writing that you were illiterate as well that you can’t master the concepts.

So there’s nothing wrong with my grammar and syntax. It pains me that I construct a clear and correct sentence to explain myself and that I have to explain it to a lower-quartile dunderhead who can’t recognise homophones.

But I’ll try your advice. (I’ll include the rest of my sentence, though.)

Vinegartits thinks I should have written this:

Unfortunately, I don't think that she has the mental capacity to remember what she has filed or what she has asked for if she can't master simple English language concepts, she is clearly illiterate.

Have a long look. Have another long, hard look just to be sure.

That’s right. Lee Drury de Cesare, English teacher of 28 years with PBK membership and all her wonderful knowledge of grammar, wants to correct my syntax with a comma splice.

Boo, Vinegartits. No one likes your grammar bullying. You hassle enough people about their homophone errors and won’t stop emailing the same tired old cracks about “your” and “you’re”, but then you admonish me and say I need to move up from homophones. I could get sharper, but it would be wasted on comma-splicing dullards like you.

At no time did I suggest that you were senile, either.

>Meanwhile, Antigrammargrinch needs to move up to something a little more complicated in the English language than mangled homophones if he is going to joust on grammar's grown-up's turf<

The turf of grown-up of grammar? You meant “grown-ups”, didn’t you? “Grammar’s grown-ups’ turf”. Wow. How do you do it, you apostrophe-mangling airhead, in a sentence bidding me to move to something more complicated?

>if she can't master simple English (hyphenate for two words acting as a single adjective before a noun) language concepts<

If the compound adjective is a no-brainer and clear, the hyphen is not needed.

More homophone trouble in formal communication

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/step-by-weary-step-do-we-protect.html

>Please consider this a formal complain of breech of professional standards by Supervisor Sosa in the Special Ed division.<

I was going to make a post to respond to Vinegartits's post about my email, but I found this first. The illiterate cow has more homophone trouble than anyone she has pointed her finger at, especially in her formal writing.

I'll post my response to her bagging me later. It's a corker, but I want to give her a chance to dwell on how I'm going to nail her. She'll read this and go back and check the email and her post, realising (if she is as good as she says she is)) that she has stuffed up big time and tried to correct my writing with what she has always maintained is a grammar felony. Curious? Watch this space.

I'll even make a post about an issue for a change, although I am primarily concerned with Vinegartits's misfiring grammar and punctuation.

Homophone illiteracy in formal communication.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-is-donkey-work-of-prizing-public.html

>If the school system does not have one, it's management is highly remiss in professionalism.<

This is a common error among illiterate idiots. "It's" always means "it is" or "it has". For all other cases, use "its". More specifically, "its" is the possessive form of the pronoun "it".

the management belonging to it = its management

Lee alleges that she has a perfect recollection of what she has filed, written and sent, but she can't master this simple homophone in a formal communication. I've half a mind to email everyone on the list and warn them of her illiteracy and therefore credibility.

>That trick was played on me when I filed against Dr. Hamilton for using the emails for his personal pursuits a couple of years ago when Ms. Elia and Ms. Kipley had cooked up charges against Bart Birsall for using the school emails for his persoal business. <

The ability to proofread a formal communication is another issue.

>Women Must Demand a New Council of Trent and Demand Equal Representation on It or Not Accept the Vatican's Rules Coming Out of it. Fair Is Fair, Fellows.

Ms. Elia used apocryphal information to hang a charge on Kemp because he has an education blogs, and blogs' commenting on anything about the schools are an anathema to the administration and school board. <

The possessive-before-gerund rule is yet another. No wonder Vinegartits's students were confused.

Exactly how stupid are you, Lee?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/here-we-go-again-wearing-them-down.html


>I would like a copy of those reasons for rejecting the emails of Lee Drury De Cesare.<

Vinegartits wonders why her emails get marked as spam. Read the stats.

X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=17.902 required=5 tests=[AWL=-2.240, BAYES_50=0.001, CUSTOM_FS_COMBO=5, CUSTOM_FS_GSPOT=5, CUSTOM_FS_MEMBER=1, CUSTOM_GIRLS=0.01, CUSTOM_IRS_SARASOTA=4, CUSTOM_MEET_COMBO=5, CUSTOM_SEX=3.8, CUSTOM_STOCKS23=0.01, CUSTOM_STOCKS_COMP=0.01, CUSTOM_STOCKS_MARKET=0.01, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SARASOTA=-2, SARASOTA_COUNTY=-2, SARASOTA_COUNTY_SB=-1.7, SARE_GIF_ATTACH=2]X-Spam-Score: 17.902X-Spam-Level: *****************X-Spam-Flag: YES

She's got a sexual reference attached to her blog name and wonders why the spam filter blocks her. Dopey old bitch.

Commas are another issue.

>Should you deny my request, or any part of the request, please state in writing the basis for the denial, including the exact statutory citation authorizing the denial, as required by s. 119.07(1)(d), F.S. <

This comma separates a compound object, Vinegartits. But you only know that when you pick on others.

>I will contact your Public Affairs office within 48 to discuss when I may expect fulfillment of my request and payment of any statutorily prescribed fees.<

Poor proofreading in a formal communication.

Ho hum - another sign of illiteracy from the queen of crap.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/5242009-dear-dr.html

>Dear Dr. Smith: As president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents, I am sure you take seriously the goals of your organization, especially the two that begin the goals list.<

This a common error among the illiterati. Vinegartits gets her knickers in a twist when "only" is misplaced, but examples like this are funnier. We now know that Vinegartits herself is the president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents unless she puts the adjectival phrase next to the word it is meant to modify.

Edit:
Dear Dr. Smith: I am sure you as president of the Florida Association of School Superintendents take seriously the goals of your organization, especially the two that begin the goals list.

And this was in a formal communication to an important education person. What a dimwit!

Synonyms

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/faxes-faxes-faxes.html

Firstly, "vagina", "pudendum" and "perineum" are not synonyms.

>I am not a ninny voter, General Mc Cullum; I am a serious citizens who expects diligent service from our elected officials. <

This is one of the proofreading errors Vinegartits includes in this formal communication.


>That's not the mark of democracy but of dictatorship.<

Parallel construction dictates this edit:

That's the mark not of democracy but of dictatorship.

Check Strunk & White if you doubt me.

Sexist language and hokey verbs

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/beyond-blue-door-of-reality.html

>It's like when the Bush spokesman told the press it didn't understand that the Bush White House lived in its own reality.<

Give yourself a lecture on your years spent fighting for women's rights.

>The administration, board, and Steve Heggarty, head of Community Affairs, says [say - plural verb for plural subject] that ROSSAC won't "cooperate with your story" of the girl's exposed vagina in the yearbook. <

Dr Hamilton doesn't know punctuation ...

... and neither does Vinegartits.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-moving-in-slowly-on-dr-beau.html

>This "gentleman" has not mastered grammar and punctuation (doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're) yet has made his money in education and now tries by hook or crook to double-dip his pension and a lobbyist take from taxpayers when he is still marginally literate and still not up to the mark ethically to represent children in the schools, especially my grandchildren, to the legislature.<

If she could punctuate correctly while she is cutting others down for their sloppy work, she might get somewhere. Close those quotation marks, airhead.

>I wrote the president of UF, Dr. Machen--and his wife, too, cautioning about letting slack thesis committees turn loose on the world UF PhDs who probably bought and paid for their theses. <
Interesting parenthesis!

>And these cultural barbarians can wear only a limited number of vulgar gold jewelry with giant zirconias and go to Hawaii for pricey vacations with non-stop room service only so many times before even they get bored. <

"Jewelry" isn't a count noun.

Dr. Hamilton has since gone back to his wife, poor woman to be fool enough to let him in the door, but now thanks to the Sarasota School board and other boards that throw around taxpayer money in the good-ol'-boy-and-girl-rape-the-tax-kitty system that seems to predominate in school boards. [comma,] Dr. Hamilton bodes to pull down maybe a half million dollars a year from these lax school boards in the lobbying-consulting racket he has devised.

This cow wants me to cut her down!

http://es-kay.net/?p=1101&cpage=1#comment-2849"

>Juries don’t like crooked administrators and they see through their distorted patois immediately.<

>I could make a case for a comma’s not being necessary between two short independent clauses.<

Let's look at how short these clauses are.

Juries don't like crooked administrators - 5 words (one a contraction)
... they see through their distorted patios immediately. 7 words


http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/comment-on-board-member-griffins.html
>I would do the same for you and [COMMA FOR COMPOUND SENTENCE] I hope you can respect that.

Please call or email me and [COMMA FOR COMPOUND SENTENCE] we will talk about your experiences and suggestions.<

I would do the same for you (7 words) and I hope you can respect that (6 words).

Please call or email me (5 words) and we will talk about your experiences and suggestions (8 words)

Is seven words a short independent clause? Only when Vinegartits writes one. What a hypocrite! She also carves up Griffin for her commas - I bet Griffin used that punctuation so that Thomas Vaughan wouldn't feel outclassed. You reckon someone that illiterate shouldn't be one the board? They shouldn't be teaching either.

Someone's got to let Thomas know he's illiterate.

Ms Griffin [comma of direct address]

If you would be willing to explain why this apparently skilled teacher [Steve Kemp] is being kept busy as a paper pusher comma I would love to hear about it. Its [apostrophe for it is] not just Steve. Ms Griffin [comma of direct address] this could happen to any one of us. It happened to me. Ms. Kipley herself told me how the numbers of abuse complaints against teachers has [subject - verb disagreement] tripled in the years she has been in charge of professional standards[caps].

If I recall correctly, I posited that it might be helpful to give guidance to teachers on how to avoid these problems. It seems to me as long as administration is willing to let teachers twist in the wind and show them little support (not good politically [comma] I guess) comma this "problem" will only get worse. If these abuse complaints have tripled as she said comma we have a problem that NEEDS [childish Romper Room capitals] to be addressed NOW [childish Romper Room capitals] .

Any suggestion that it is in the interest of teachers to curtail their participation in discussing these issues in blogs is a self hyphen serving attempt to protect the status quo which, in my opinion, is tantamount to sacrificing teachers for political expediency.

Those are the matters I want to speak to you about. Are you willing to talk to me? I believe we can find a way not to violate Mr. Kemps apostrophe right to due process and your obligation to remain unbiased. What do you think?

Had I a choice, I would prefer that Griffin teach my child over Vaughan.

Everybody - still singular; and a misquote

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/aw-furthermore.html

>The awful thing about somebody's messing up with the administration is that everybody--including other teachers and the union--shun the person as if she has the plague. <

She still can't work it out. The parenthetic bit should have helped. Everybody shuns. Sheesh!


>"The quality of mercy is not strained; it dropeth from heaven like the gentle rain," says Shakespeare.<

No, he didn't. And if he had, he would have spelled "droppeth" correctly.


>I append documents that I sent out today about the mistreatment of a third-grade teacher by one of Bradenton's principals and the board attorney.<

Flabby passive voice.


>I implore that you three see that Ms. Cropsey gets mercy from some source: you if it comes to that.<
The subjunctive mood is obviously dead as far as you're concerend. Lay off everyone else now, Vinegartits.

Make your case here, Vinegartits.

http://es-kay.net/?p=1101&cpage=1#comment-2849

">Juries don’t like crooked administrators and they see through their distorted patois immediately.<
She means slack things like failing to separate two independent clauses with a comma, as in this example from her post. "


I challenge you to make your case, Vinegartits. You aren't used to being called on these things, are you?

Everybody - singular!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/keeping-on-task.html

>When the administration targets a teacher like it has targeted Ms. Cropsey, everybody including other teachers who should know better make the person a pariah.<

Everybody makes the person a pariah. This is a common mistake because of all those nasty words in between.

Spellcheckers

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-distance-complaining-about.html

>I am glad I did not give a lecture on English because the spell checker betrayed me and spelled "know" as "no." Spell checkers won't catch homophones. I hope to remember that fact some day. lee <

Let's not beat about the bush. The spell checker did not spell the word incorrectly. You did, Vinegartits. Your record of homophone trouble is starting to make Hamilton's look insignificant.

Wordiness

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/05/as-hamlet-said-words-words-words.html

>If so, you should deal with the lies cooked up by the Hillsborough County Schools' administration in claiming teachers violate professional standards in order to scare them into acquiescence with administrative thuggery and to put the word out that anybody who lets out a peep of criticism of the administration or board will be the target of a false charge.<

Check Strunk & White for advice on wordiness.

Wrong commas = illiteracy

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=8229815643007280450

>Dear Vox Populi: I got a thing-a-ma-diggy that my grandson, the computer engineering student; was going come see me and attach to my computer so that it acted like a second hard drive.<

Wrong.

I upgraded to a snazzier computer, but I still don't have it hooked up to the stand=by hard drive.

This is new. And it's wrong.

Passive vs active - the verb "to goader"

http://es-kay.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-2831


On Goader's blog, Vinegartits makes this comment.

>My computer has been down for a week, so the last thing I read about Goader’s crucifixion by Ms. Elia et al was a comment on “The Wall” in which somebody said he or she didn’t want the administration to be [sic] “goader” him or her.

The person who leaves behind his history is the one who can act so as to become a verb. This is Goader’s unique achievement: he has ascended to the status of transitive-active verb: the strongest in the verb family.<

Here are the quotes on The Wall. http://call-in-6.blogspot.com/2009/04/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go.html

Believe me: No one needs to get "goadered".

Thomas Vaughan said...
....Goader chose to let them intimidate him into silence. You can only be "Goadered" if you assuage them.

Vinegartits, a good test for passive voice is to see if you can slip a "by" in there.

No one needs to get "goadered" [by administration].
You can only be "Goadered" [by them] if you assuage them.

The verb "to goader" was used only passively, I'm afraid.

Thomas Vaughan, you really do have a way with people, don't you? As Goader wrote, keep repeating your rot and it might come true (even if it is only in your mind). And be honest; Lee has vinegartitted you, hasn't she?

vaughan88@verizon.net Are you providing info now?

This explains a lot. Go on - find my info. Let me know when you post it.

From Goader's blog:

http://es-kay.net/?p=1045&cpage=1#comment-2830

This speaks volumes. If you can't use a comma, you're illiterate. If you haven't read Machiavelli, you're not educated. Thomas taunts me with the "if the words aren't too big for you" line, and Lee still insists I'm in the lower quartile.

Readers, it's all those two have got! Name-calling.

Thomas Vaughan makes no secret of his hypocrisy when we writes "Yes, do as I say, not as I do." Good on you for not trying to hide it, but you're an asshole for practising it.

You can sense his excitement when he says he is about to get all my info. You go for it, Thomas. I'll be keen to see what you do with it. I've already told you some of what you need to know about me - that is, that I started this blog because I couldn't stand Vinegartits's hypocrisy - and you STILL can't work it out.


I can't wait to see all my info! If it's as wildly inaccurate as all the other crap you write, it might be good for a laugh. I challenge you to find it, Thomas. You've got it stuck in your head that only people who have read Machiavelli are educated; let's see your research skills, if you're so clever!



Thomas Vaughan on April 23rd, 2009 8:49 am
Did I hurt your feelings antigrammargrinch?
Yes, I am a master of capitulation, read Machiavelli and no, I refuse to zip it.
Oh wait, you may not be familiar with him. Machiavelli was a philosopher who wrote “The Prince”. Read it and become educated. You will find that capitulation is often an appropriate strategy.


Antigrammargrinch on May 3rd, 2009 7:55 am
Quotes will work better, obviously.
“Did I hurt your feelings antigrammargrinch?”
No, you make me laugh.
“Yes, I am a master of capitulation, read Machiavelli and no, I refuse to zip it.”
Fine. Don’t zip it. Expect fallout.
“Oh wait, you may not be familiar with him. Machiavelli was a philosopher who wrote “The Prince”. Read it and become educated.”
I may not be familiar with him … but then again I may be! How would you know? You make too many assumptions, don’t you Thomas? “Become educated” says he who can’t punctuate or distinguish between “you’re” and “your”. You’re a funny guy!
“You will find that capitulation is often an appropriate strategy.”
Not often enough. You obviously feel it’s fine for you to chicken out, but you admonish others who yield. It’s “do as I say, not as I do” with you, isn’t it?


Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 12:11 pm
Yes, do as I say, not as I do.
antigrammargrinch pls reed Machiavelli. Your goin to luv it if de words aint to big for u .
As long as you do what i says….u goin to be fine.
Ok Steve I promise to end my comments on this thread…antigrammargrinch is so much fun to play with.

Goader on May 3rd, 2009 1:15 pm
The comment sections never close.

Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 5:19 pm
OK…I’ll just refrain from taking antigrammargrinch bait. It really doesn’t have anything to add to the discussion. Its only purpose is to insult a woman who stood up for YOU when you were down.


lee drury de cesare on May 3rd, 2009 7:47 pm

I see that little imp AntiGrammargrinch is nipping in and out of Goader’s blog with his usual smart-ass, infelicitously couched comments. Just ignore the lower-quartile rascal is my advice. He will go away if you ignore him. He sends these missives from Tallahassee, I infer. I keep seeing a state university Internet service provideron my blog’s entries. And pray leave off urging him to read Machiavelli. The boy has not finished the first-grade classic “Down the River Road” yet. He will die without having read “The Prince” or even “The Adventures of Dipsey Doodle.”

Thomas Vaughan on May 3rd, 2009 8:38 pm
OMG
The Antigrammargrinch has been outed. I know a way we can get all we need to know about him. Want me to get the info?

Help needed. (Passive voice, and I don't care.)

http://prohcds.blogspot.com/2009/04/laptop-blackmarket.html

Thomas Vaughan said...
I was director of security for one of the largest hospital consortiums in Virginia and one of my responsibilities was inventory control and loss prevention. It is not that difficult to implement accountability systems to prevent this. My biggest problem was the loss of surgical gowns. I sat behind the hospital laundry each night for a week and caught some employee back his truck up to the receiving dock and load them in his vehicle. At least he was smart enough to get them washed before he took them.I guess the security folks are too busy harassing teachers who disagree with administration.
April 21, 2009 3:23 PM

I laughed when I read this, but I'm trying to find one of Thomas's posts when he complained that his principal walked in on him unannounced and was spying on him or something. I'd love to list both posts side by side.

If you can't work it out, you're stupid, Thomas.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/stomping-on-first-amendment.html

From Thomas Vaughan:
Ok...maybe she bothers some people with her grammar criticism. So what? What is wrong with good grammar? Its really all in fun. She hasn't attacked my poor grammar because she's given up on me.Have you read the nasty disgusting garbage written by her enemies? Who are those people? Why are they attacking her? Have you seen the doctored photo one of them uses? I don't get it, why are they being so gratuitously mean? What purpose does it serve?
2:52 PM
Anonymous said...
And notice how they don't ever comment on her content.....what kind of person tries to knock down someone who is fighting for the Little Man? Who on earth believes the people at the top should not have their feet held to the fire? They like big salaries, so with that big salary comes tons of responsibility and lots of criticism.

Are you really this stupid, Thomas? I don't believe that you are. I think you know exactly why. I've made it clear on this blog that I find Lee's hypocrisy incredible.

What's wrong with good grammar, and it's all in fun? That is not the case, and you know it. Lee doesn't give up on your grammar; she doesn't touch you because you're one of her special friends. It has nothing to to with grammar and everything to do with bullying people. If she were that worried about grammar, she would pick on everyone with a bit more consistency.

Look at the last post on her Grammargrinch blog. December 5, 2008. I've shut this cow down, but she'll come out with the grammar abuse occasionally when she wants to belittle someone.

You support her hypocrisy too, Thomas. Lee posts amusing pictures of fat cats that she says board members resemble, she makes fun of their hairstyles and calls them "pole girl" and other names, yet you question why I use a doctored picture and why I'm being mean? (Thomas, you called me names too, and you taunted me about my mother, but but this has nothing to do with why I pull up Lee.) Lee's post has "First Amendment" in its title, and you bang on about how Goader has been asked to be silent, yet you won't extend me the same courtesy.

"Maybe she bothers some people ... So what?" you write? It looks as if I bother people too, Thomas. You can respect my First Amendment right, thank you.

Anonymous, (Lee will maintain you're a coward for not signing your post), I've commented on Lee's content on a couple of occasions, but I set this blog up to list Lee's hypocrisy and her own grammar errors. Have a scroll through Lee's Grammargrinch posts. She regularly picked on people's grammar and punctuation without giving a hoot about content.

I pick on her grammar and pretty much ignore her content because I think Lee should cop a bit of her own medicine herself. Why not ask Lee why she picks on others' grammar and punctuation without discussing the content? You can post her response here, if you like.

If you want comment on content, check out Ziggy's blog, The Abyss. There's a link on my home page. Some of Lee's fans pop in now and again. People like Thomas Vaughan have a read, but don't post. It's strange that they make their comments (on Ziggy's meanness, not his content -even stranger!) elsewhere, rather than on Ziggy's blog.

I like the cockroach metaphor. When Ziggy and I turn the lights on, the Thomas Vaughans and Lee de Cesares of the world scuttle and hide.

Slight return: Since posting, I've been to Ziggy's post here:

http://ziggysabyss.blogspot.com/2009/04/its-really-all-in-fun.html

I swear that I hadn't read it first. How odd that more than one person notices the same things!


Anonymous said...
I agree. If people can't see that Lee's agenda is about re-inforcing her own sense of self importance and superiority they are blind or have no ojectivity.

She only cares about people insofar as she can use them to further her own agenda.When she thought she would be able to have April Griffin as her own personal puppet Lee was abuzz over her. Once April showed a modicum of free thinking and independence ignoring Lee's helf-witted demands well Lee could not stand it! Oh the travesty!

Lee can't figure out that you don't have to rave like a lunatic and make half-baked claims that destroy credibility to make a difference or work againt the establishment.

Lee seems to think that you have to threaten, belittle, demean and harass to get things done. It's sad and unsettling to observe such an unhappy and and clearly distrubed person. She is not at peace as she would have people believe.

Finally I think the woman has lost any grasp she may have had on reality. She calls people by the wrong name. She switches names routinely (In one post while railing against attorney Tom Gonzalez, she suddenly started calling him Ton Graham.... wtf!?!?). And she has the worst grammar that I have EVER seen. She routinely misuses words, mis-spells and doesn't follow her own punctuation rules. Lee is a self-proclaimed feminist who accuses women of sleeping their way to the top and tears women down if she feels the least bit threatened or insulted.

She is the ultimate hypocrit.
April 29, 2009 2:49 PM

How colloquial! (and ignorant)

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-lord-its-worse-than-we-thought.html

>They use to be easy to find on the web, but now you must belong to a paid "research" site for lawyers and/or administrators to get information on these lawyers who give such seminars.<

Edit: They used to be easy to find ... Vinegartits can't conjugate verbs.

She'll probably change it, but here's the proof.

Have I cured you?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/l-ets-drink-to-fighting-minions-of-dark.html

>Beware of board members bearing false faces of honesty when they are knee deep in the skulduggery that is killing you.<

Unfortunately, Vinegartits can't win with this one. If she recognises a participle and punctuates it accordingly, I'll lampoon her for failing to uphold her neurotic possessive-before-gerund standards. Does she see the error in her ways, or is she apathetic about punctuation? If it's the former, I'm glad to have been of assistance.

>Mr. Erwin's naivete and trust in the system made him think Mr. Bricklemeyer was honest. She was as honest as a pickpocket.<

Get your facts / gender agreement straight.

Comic book capitals

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-got-mail.html

6:11 AM
twinkobie said...

>GoADER HAS ENDURED AN ORDEAL, AND IT IS COMING TO THE END OF IT. I WISH THAT HE WOULD DIRECT THIS KIND OF ENERGY TO ADDRESSING THE ADMINISTRATION ON BOARD DAYS. THAT WOULD ADVANCE HIS CASE MORE THAN ANY THING ANYBODY ELSE CAN DO.

I DON'T THINK THE ADMINISTRATION WILL FIRE GOADER AFTER ALL THE EXPOSURE HIS CASE HAS GOTTEN.I AM GRATEFUL TO GOADER FOR SERVING AS A MODEL OF WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION CAN DO TO A TEACHER TO SHUT HIM OR HER UP BY TERRIFYING THEM WITH THE THREAT OF JOB LOSS. IT IS TO GOADER'S CREDIT THAT HE HAS NOT SHUT DOWN HIS BLOG: THE ADMINISTRATION'S GOAL IN THIS UGLY ILLUSTRATION OF HOW THEY USE THEIR POWER WITH THE BOARD'S BACKUP TO TERRORIZE TEACHERS INTO SILENCE.

WHATEVER THE OUTCOME, I WISH GOADER LUCK. I PREDICT THAT HE WILL BE BACK IN THE CLASSROOM IN THE FALL SEMESTER. LEE<

Okay .. I hear you. Stop shouting with your comic-book Romper-Room capitals.

I think you're right, Ziggy. Senile Lee is losing the plot moreso these days.

Come now; you're not trying.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/devil-made-me-do-that.html

>Ms. Elia makes $300,000 a year and a beginning teacher makes $34,000. <

Separate two independent clauses with a comma, you stupid illiterate bonehead. I taught grammar for 28 years. It's a march to the swamps of illiteracy. Lee doesn't have a proper Ph. D. She's a nurse - one rung lower than a Home Ec. teacher and level with Early Childhooders. Blah, blah, blah.

Super comma splice

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/never-hesitate-to-ask-rhodes-scholar.html

>Your fellow Plant City denizen the greedy Dr. Earl the Pearl Lennard began this bonus gimmick, The equally greedy Ms. Elia continues it with board approval. <

The march to the swamps of illiteracy continues.

>Board Member Falliera has distinguished herself by initiating an affair with Marc Hart, former head of Community Affairs, causing him to divorce his wife, leaving his two little children in bad psychological and financial straits. The administration forced him to resign to save Ms. Falliera's "reputation." He brought the divorce depositions at his own initiative to my home in Madeira Beach, so I know the whole seamy tale. After this saga, the board appointmed Ms. Falliera chair.<

Stupid. Thrice.

>The newspaper reporting on the schools is too flaccid to give them any concern.<

No possessive for a change? I've taught you well, haven't I?

The sisterhood of Gaia, Dike, and Themis are watching.

"Sisterhood" is singular, sister.



Ziggy said...
Also notice that she said "Etheridge" instead of Edgecomb. This error along with "Falliera" (which are becoming more and more common) leads me to suspect that Lee is on the slow road to senility.
April 16, 2009 9:53 AM

Anonymous said...
Note the ever present name transition that vinegartits is such a propensity for. Tom Gonzalez is the guys proper name

From Lee's blog:Tom Gonzalez, ever prepared to cover illegal behavior of board members with faux-legal gloss, said later that my speaking someone's name might "violate the person's privacy." Tom Gallagher cares about as much about violating a person's privacy as he cares about the scandal of his holding the lawyer perch for 37 years, which his firm got on a good ol' boy handshake.
April 29, 2009 2:59 PM

The data thing ... again!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/flimflam-or-incompetence-neither-is.html


>His bosses, Jack Davis and James Hamilton, would write him that his data were incomplete or that they had not received it, and that he had to re-investigate the situation.<

were - plural
it - singular
Vinegartits - illiterate

Illiterate too strong a word? The comma after "it" splits a compound object. Make your own decision.

The apostrophe butcher

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/ive-got-mail.html

>To show how complicit the board is with the administration in crucifying teachers who give even a whiff of rebellion, I sent Steve Kemp to ask for Board Member April Griffins’ help. <

The help of April Griffin? I don't think so. Keep trying, Lee. You'll get there.

What did Earl think of these pearlers?

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/04/keeping-in-touch-with-beelzebu.html

>Any one who read Mr. Wiesner’s Death by Education, Book titles get italics. now on sale at Alibris for very high prices as an education-underground-collector’s item, knows how sadistic you were as superintendent.<

>Mr. Wiesner’s His What the ? blood pressure skyrocketed. So he gave up. He left the malignant board and administration behind. I tried to get in touch with him Comma here: see Strunk & White but was unable to track him down.<

>Board members promise the public to “clean up the administration,” walks through the ROSSAC portals after election, and falls Subject-verb disagreement right in with the rackets run by the superintendent. Anybody who does not go along with the superintendent’s and board’s skullduggery gets fired.<

>You punished nobody for the crime after Mr. Erwin won his court case and $165.000 No period here settlement against the board and administration. <

>Middle-school media specialist Bart Birdsall and I sent Ms. Doretha Edgecomb a copy of the Wiesner book when she was elected Flabby passive voice. <

>Right now special-ed teacher Steve Kemp has been suspended Flabby passive voice for the alleged offense of child abuse manufactured by Ms. Elia More flabby passive voice .<

>The sheriff threw out the chargek, but Mr. Lucco Brazzi Valdez is prolonging the torture of Mr. KIemp in order to see what it takes to make Mr. Kemp shut down his blog, which is occasionally mildly critical of the administration. Somebody from the administration or at its even called Mr. Kemp and asked him not to discuss a certain subject on his blog any more. <

>And it was your reign that prepared the ground for such vile conduct by the current board Flabby passive voice and administration .<

>One thing more that offends me: Sentence precedes colon It was you who instituted the “bonus” for the superintendent based on student achievement. <

This last sentence is wordy crap. Edit: You instituted the " bonus” for the superintendent based on student achievement.

Tenured teachers

http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/article987898.ece

Interesting article.

Of course the first comment at Richard's blog here https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=438461550168398569&postID=3140093666193954922 is from our mate Thomas Vaughan.

Thomas Vaughan said...
I think you could investigate the employees of any institution and find bad ones. I guarantee you this, more good, dedicated and honest teachers leave every year because of the stress of the job than could ever be fired if they got rid of tenure.

A real hatchet job by Mr. Matus but is was great reading right Richard?

What did it prove and why did you include it on your blog? I was shocked that you would do this. I am a big fan of this blog but I am disappointed that you felt it necessary to include this garbage.
March 29, 2009 10:20 PM

Whatever happened to First Amendment rights, free speech and speaking one's mind? Oh, that's right ... you disagree with it, so no one is allowed to mention it.

And swearing on your father's grave doesn't disprove the allegations.

From the article:

There is no easy way to find out which teachers get in trouble a lot.
Their personnel files are public record, but they're not posted on the Web, and it can easily cost more than $100 to redact and copy a few files.

I might get a hold of a copy of Thomas's file and have a gander. I'm sure that Vinegartits has.

Whoops! Missed a post!

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-comments-on-goaders-blog.html

>I was so enchanted with the sight of the board talking about ethics that I dumped my planned comments and instead said I would identify people on the board who should under no circumstances offer themselves as role models of character to children looking for people in the schools to look up to.<

Possessive before gerund, Vinegartits. Or have you learned (from me - glad to be of assistance) that there is a difference between a gerund and a participle? Please clarify. Either you are wrong according your own standards or you've decided to adopt mine.


>I wheeled on Ms. Elia and told her she was a bully, was a constitutional liar<

It certainly takes one to know one. You can't get enough of bragging how wonderful you are at the podium. The rumour is that you spoke terribly. You tried the "Oh, I changed my tack at at the last minute" ruse to try to save face. You've probably fooled some people.

Yes, but Lee's a liar, too.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/emotional-blackmail-as-usual-and-sneaky.html
I love the comments on this entry. They're all liars, they're all liars. Lee's a liar, too. It's been proven regularly. She's illiterate as well. Cop these.

I understand you were an undergraduate history major comma here but would bet my best pair of Manola Blanicks that you never read The Federalist Papers, and if you did, you didn't understand Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.

You have instigated the child-abuse frame-up that has gutted Steve Kemp during a six-months' This is a new form of apostrophe abuse, even for Vinegartits suspension; before you let him loose, you want to assure that he will offer you no resistance if you waive the child-abuse charge.

After the coddling of the incompetent principal in the Alafia case, your willingness to hire the incompetent Ms. Smith a coach on how act human for $345 Inflation? You received confirmation it was $340. Filthy liar. a day with plans before the mothers put their feet down to send her and her assistant principal to Eckerd for personality-remake seminars for $4500 apiece, this crucifixion of a teacher on a trumped-up charge makes Caligula look like an old softie.

Parenthesis trouble - and more.

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/people-don.html

>The 56-foot yacht in Jupiter, Fla., used by the two judges.<

Flabby passive voice.

About twenty years ago, three Hillsborough County commissioners were caught taking bribes. I think Shouldn't you know before you start slandering them?these were Joe Kotvos, Fred Anderson, and Jerry Bowmer.

Dr. Lennard led the campaign with Dr. James Hamilton and Mr. Davis--or maybe it was Black; I get them mixed up-- Again, check your facts before you start.to give Mr. Erwin the runaround when Mr. Erwin tried for two years to get them to do something about the crimes he had discovered: kickbacks, rigged bids, shoddy construction of schools, and plain stealing of such things as tractors and even toilet paper by the grounds supervisor. Flabby passive voice.

The board looked the other way or some members participated, and the others looked the other way. Proper punctuation would help this sentence.

In fact Shudder., they are rapidly disappearing.

The readers slide to the semi literate of the population while savvy citizens switch to online news and blogs.

If an imperilled newspaper management were smart--and it isn't--look at that dope who owns the NYT, Dauphin Sulzberger, it would switch to Web sites with the local news its emphasis. Online news does not cover local but national news.
The removal of the bit in parenthesis renders the sentence nonsensical (and a run-on sentence).

I can then see a transition of readers to the smart local paper's blog for local news; then they would switch to blogs for differnt takes on local stories and the national and international news Webs for that level of news.

I heard Andrew Barnes at an ACLU hoedown fifteen years ago impugning the Internet's effect on news compared to With, with, with! the purity of local newspapers immaculate productions.

So much for Andy. Mr. Tash was Mr. Barnes's Sancho Panza, so he now manages with the same dim principles even though his parents were teachers and he graduated summa cum laude from some Iowa school--or maybe it was Ohio-- Check your facts for excelling in hayseed scholarship that did not include learning to punctuate or to assess a business situation and make the right moves to stay on the sunny side of economics.

One wants the institution that cares for the intellectual development of our children to be pure..

Such a belief contaminates the romance of schools being What? No possessive before gerund? the pristine and potent center of democracy's training the young to practice ideal democreacy when they are grown.

The board said noting about this rape of the tax payers and apparently did nothing to confirm that Dr. Hamilton's job was a faux position.

So if the board condones featherbedding jobs paid for by taxpayers Flabby passive voice. , maybe it is possible that one accepted a financial bailout from the administration with tax dollars.

I looked at the NYT front page to see what President Obama was going to do with the auto industry, Comma splits compound predicate and ran across the following shocker of public officials' crime.

Like the crime in the school sytem, people around these two judges knew about the crime Comma needed here but like the workers and teachers in the schools didn't say anything for fear of losing their jobs.

Vinegartits reads my blog to learn.

Two out of three ain't bad. A few posts ago here

http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2009/03/homophone-problems-equals-illiterate.html

I mentioned Vinegartits's homophone difficulties with "to" and "too" (proving that she is illiterate) and had a laugh at her error in a sentence that boasted how the ability to use language is so wonderful and how she is so great at it.

Vinegartits has obviously checked my blog and gone back to correct her errors. http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html

Now I know at least one reason why my hit counter keeps ticking over. You're welcome, Miss I've-been-teaching-for-28-years-and-I'm-so-wonderful. Luckily, I took a screen shot of your slop so that even if you corrected it we could all still see how illiterate you are.

PS Did you notice how I made my scan big enough for my reader to read? This is called "giving a shit". I know you don't give a shit about any of your readers because you give them a curt "Blow it up yourself". Your readers probably know deep down that you don't give a shit about them. The educators that you deride when you allege that they have no technological savvy are rolling in the aisles at your hypocrisy, too.

Check ... one, two ...

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/03/peashooters-are-out-and-about.html

I'll move away from Vinegartits's grammar briefly. I can't help notice these comments.


From Vinegartits (Sentence fragment intended):

>I can't figure out how to blow this scan up. You will have do that job. <

>Please send me the name of the AV person who is in charge when the board is in session.<

>The education channel has called me to come in and let it prove that they its personnel did not cut out my appearances.<

From a poster (Anonymous, natch.):

>When you spoke at meeting, no one in audience heard you. Sounds like Education Channel caved in. <

This whole let's-blame-everyone-because-Lee-couldn't-be-heard debacle is laughable. Ziggy outlines at his Abyss blog that Lee as a public speaker is pathetic.

I wager that Lee can't use a microphone or project her voice properly. Microphones aren't magic; many people think that if they are in the same room as this magic ice cream cone, then all is fine. I've seen people muttering into microphones, followed by efforts from the "AV" personnel to turn up the volume. Mostly, the idiots on the mics speak more quietly when they hear their levels increase.

Surely a teacher with experience of 28 years could project her voice clearly enough.

It wouldn't matter when the AV person tells Lee that she can't use a microphone for peanuts; she's already got her back up. The AV person could start talking about gain structure, feedback, cardoid patterns, condenser mics, omnidirectional/unidirectional microphones, or a host of other topics and it still wouldn't matter, because this vindictive bitch has already worked out that it couldn't have been her fault.

My thought for the day: If you've got something important for people to read, make it readable. If you've got something important for people to hear, make it audible.

We've seen how apathetic Vinegartits is towards increasing the size of some scanned text for people to read. Surely she could be similarly apathetic towards mastering the art of how to use a microphone for people to hear. Gee, she's too apathetic to master the homophones "to" and "too"!