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Error-riddled letter from Virginia teachers
union about lack of COVID testing in school
district is mocked as parent spots roughly
20 blunders in just FIVE paragraphs and
posts revised version to Twitter

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Posted By: Imright, 12/31/2021 12:05:05 PM

An error-filled letter from a Virginia teachers union president calling for increased protections against the coronavirus was mocked relentlessly on Twitter after an appalled parent took a correction pen to the piece and posted the revised version online. 'Hey @VEA4Kids, are you going to send out more of these grammar worksheets over break?' parent Ellen Gallery wrote Thursday morning, in a post that featured the heavily marked-up document sent by Arlington Education Association President Ingrid Grant.'My kids and I had a great time spotting errors!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bgarrett 12/31/2021 12:16:42 PM (No. 1024278)
Dating websites have MANY teachers, including professors, who cant spell
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Reply 2 - Posted by: marbles 12/31/2021 12:21:57 PM (No. 1024284)
Are and our are not homophones. Thy are pronounced differently.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 12/31/2021 12:25:43 PM (No. 1024290)
Grammar is just gone. How could children learn grammar and proper spelling and English if their teachers don't know it at all?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: weirdone 12/31/2021 12:26:07 PM (No. 1024291)
The most incoherent letter I have ever read was written by a teacher supporting a wage increase.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 12/31/2021 12:26:31 PM (No. 1024294)
Teachers, once universally (we all recall a few exceptions), loved and admired through undergraduate years, have lost a lot of respect during the past few years . This through putting their own comfort, income and safety so far ahead of their student’s interests.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: udanja99 12/31/2021 12:42:40 PM (No. 1024313)
Many years ago I was driving down the main street of a small town and saw a grammatical error on the marquis in front of the school board headquarters building. It was so blatant that I pulled over and took a picture of it. It has been a very long time since educators were actually educated.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: franq 12/31/2021 1:05:04 PM (No. 1024336)
Y r u so picky? B 4 u criticize them, look at they're GPA! Spelling and Grammer are so yesterday...😳
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ruhn 12/31/2021 1:08:18 PM (No. 1024340)
Yet another reason to pull your kids out of public schools.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: franq 12/31/2021 1:10:36 PM (No. 1024344)
Reminds me of an article years ago in my local paper. "Clinton Tauts Test Scores". I guess that means he was making the scores tighter. Or something.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mc squared 12/31/2021 1:12:12 PM (No. 1024345)
Gramar and speling our jus mo proofs of a hostile white supreemist socyity.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: zman 12/31/2021 1:20:52 PM (No. 1024349)
This exact same thing happened to my daughter at College. The Athletic Director for the College sent out a memo with guidelines to all athletes about sports at the start of Covid. My daughter (Chemistry Major with a Minor in English) saw the memo and went nuts. She did this exact same mark-up and graded the memo as a C- and sent it to her tennis coach as a joke. The coach thought it hilarious and shared it with the Athletic Director, who I'm sure has done a grammar and spelling check before sending out any further memos.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mossley 12/31/2021 1:30:15 PM (No. 1024360)
The sad truth is education is the major for people who fail everything else - sorry to the small percentage of talented teachers out there, but you know your co-workers. When I was in college, science majors were advised to take education classes as electives, because it was a guaranteed A with no effort. The classes were commonly known as "Kindergarten Revisited" and "Cut-and-paste For Credit." Still, there were education majors who failed. It's no surprise that a few years ago the local vo-tech school offered "coy" fish for sale. I emailed the principal and asked if there was a discount for slightly shy fish. He had no idea what I meant, or that they were actually selling koi. You can't expect much when the uneducated are teaching the kids.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/31/2021 1:31:40 PM (No. 1024363)
Teachers? ... and they can't spell or discern child abuse from actual education?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: lana720 12/31/2021 1:38:45 PM (No. 1024369)
Apparently, some people don’t know about the Oxford comma! Good for this lady. No wonder she home schools.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Pnstrpilot 12/31/2021 1:48:45 PM (No. 1024382)
One of the most memorable for me was riding with my father, on 495, between the Potomac and Rte. 7 (as I recall) some decades ago. Dad pointed out the newly minted overhead signs, for our Capitol Beltway read "Capital Beltway"... Now, I graduated from Herndon High, that lack of education aside, I do still know the meaning of Capital vs. Capitol...especially...considering it Is D.C., the nations Capitol. Btw, I haven't been back in years....do the signs still read "Capital Beltway"?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: red1066 12/31/2021 1:53:19 PM (No. 1024388)
I can't recall ever having an English class in grammar. I remember reading assignments, book reports, discussions of certain books and plays, but never any explanation of where a comma goes, or a semi colon. When people start talking about grammatical errors, I draw a blank. There is a vague memory of a moment in class about daggling participles, but I couldn't tell you what they are or how to spot them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: lakerman1 12/31/2021 2:15:17 PM (No. 1024418)
Ingrid has a desperate need to learn about using topic sentences.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: BarryNo 12/31/2021 2:36:53 PM (No. 1024442)
Poster 16, I can remember grammar classes. I also remember history and geography. I'm 65, this year. I can't remember Civics classes, but my older siblings assure me they took them. We all had penmanship, and writing classes (how to use script) I understand a lot of these have gone by the wayside in modern 'education'. Civics was dropped by educators who complained about 'American propaganda in modern times'. History was dispensed with because, "Why teach about old news. Teach about how people live now!' Script was difficult and unnecessary - outdated. Education stopped teaching long ago. They even pushed dropping phonetics in place of 'shape recognition' and grammar is ancient history to them. Step by step, they kill our children's brains and future opportunities. The DOE and the teacher's unions need disbanded and education returned to local school boards.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: SkeezerMcGee 12/31/2021 2:53:42 PM (No. 1024452)
Semicolon, not semi colon. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spelling+of+semicolon&t=h_&ia=definition Periods Come Inside: With only one exception, the period always comes inside closing quotation marks. This rule applies even if only one quoted word ends the sentence. Thus: He said, "We need to tell the boss right away." She reported that the boss was, in her words, "miffed." https://www.grammar.com/periods-with-quotation-marks/
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Highvoltage 12/31/2021 4:27:05 PM (No. 1024529)
Wonder how Dr. Jill Biden would edit this letter? Doesn’t she have a doctorate in education degree? An EdD degree?
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