Error-riddled Virginia teachers union
letter gets roasted on social media
New York Post,
by
Selim Algar
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/31/2021 11:21:17 AM
Reading, writing and ratios. An error-laden letter from a Virginia teachers union calling for more protections against the coronavirus has gone viral on Twitter. Startled by a slew of linguistic gaffes, an Arlington parent took a correction pen to the piece and posted the aftermath online. “Hey @VEA4Kids, are you going to send out more of these grammar worksheets over break?” the poster quipped derisively. “My kids and I had a great time spotting errors! Did we find them all?” Despite the letter only consisting of five paragraphs, the Twitter teacher spotted roughly 20 blunders and highlighted them in green pen.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/31/2021 11:41:48 AM (No. 1024256)
Children can't learn grammar because most of their teachers don't know any grammar, either.
Sad.
I remember diagraming sentences, studying the differences between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, etc. I'm no grammar expert, but at least competent in it....and offended by the now common use of verbs as if they were nouns by the illiterate -- even the talking heads on TV speak of 'sending an invite' to someone. Many more examples out there. "A big ask".....stupid misuse of grammar.
And this whole 'choose your pronouns' has articles using plural pronouns for individuals....in news reports which is very jarring.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
volksford 12/31/2021 11:44:37 AM (No. 1024258)
Look for the union label
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kono 12/31/2021 11:47:00 AM (No. 1024261)
Judging peeps from litterisy are white privelidge. Go home and pack you're bags were sending you away to unraysis camp for awile.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HerbVA 12/31/2021 11:50:05 AM (No. 1024264)
In defense of Ingrid Gant, perhaps her first language is ebonics.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LesUNo 12/31/2021 12:16:10 PM (No. 1024277)
#1, I feel your pain. My particular bugaboo is the phrase, “He disrespected me.” When did disrespect become a verb?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/31/2021 12:41:34 PM (No. 1024310)
I am no grammar expert either but I can write a proper letter. It may be that I was a student in the forties and fifties when the schools taught good grammar. I see these mistakes every day in articles written by so-called journalists. Improper use of words like ‘it’s’ and ‘its’, ‘there’ and ‘their’ and even worse blunders are all over the place. I guess they don’t use real editors anymore.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lazyman 12/31/2021 1:07:45 PM (No. 1024339)
Any parent reading this letter should immediately begin home schooling. The kids receiving an "education" from this school will be losers.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/31/2021 1:28:41 PM (No. 1024357)
That's the point, #7.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/31/2021 1:34:09 PM (No. 1024366)
Should have used a HUGE RED PEN to notate the errors...then find the original authors and FIRE THEM for Incompetence!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 12/31/2021 1:45:53 PM (No. 1024378)
We communicate using words. Proper grammar allows a person to explain themselves to others. How many times I have had to read and reread a headline because it was written so poorly. Many times people say one thing but their misuse of proper grammar makes the statement the complete opposite of what they intended to say. That is happening more and more frequently in articles written by people who claim to be journalists. They also seem to have a very limited vocabulary. English has many words that can enhance a story and get the point across or describe a situation. Limited vocabulary leads to a story that causes such confusion that, by the end of it, the writer has essentially said nothing.
I catch Judge Judy in the late afternoon and it is amazing how many people do not understand the questions she asks and then have such a limited vocabulary that they cannot even plead their case. "No wuh aam say'n?"
I too spent hours "at the board" diagramming sentences. Every day during my eight years of grade school we had a new "vocabulary word." We did a lot of reading aloud, and then explaining to the class what we had just read to improve our comprehension. We played parts of speech "baseball" where the teacher threw out a noun, pronoun verb, adjective or adverb and the person "at bat" better know the answer. Sometimes she would change it up and through out a gerund, split infinitive, or a dangling participle and...you better know your prepositions. Of course we didn't do that everyday, but often enough that I'm getting a knot in my stomach as I write this now.
AND...I agree, totally with #5 I cringe at the phrase "He disrespected me."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
pinger 12/31/2021 4:18:03 PM (No. 1024515)
She must have been educated in the same public schools at which those she represents currently teach.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 1/1/2022 5:44:09 AM (No. 1024907)
Let me guess, the parent is a racist?
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Good stuff, but spelling and grammar? The teachers union exists to make money for teachers, who in turn teach elements of patriotic Marxism including LGBTQ+ pride, animosity toward White people and Christians, and that the USA needs to be overthrown.