Posted on 09/17/2012 8:07:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
He’s writing about the media’s “gutter level standards”. Maybe he is mocking them by using the word “outdid”. The rest of his writing looks pretty good.
>>This comment is from a grandmother who still diagrams sentences when reading. And is able to spell, write and speak in complete sentences in spite of surviving grades 4-8 in a two-room schoolhouse. Two teachers with two grades each, plus 2 bathrooms. And horror of horrors, our 7-8th grade teacher was Jewish and we actually sang Christmas carols from a tiny booklet.
You’re talking to a teacher that previously taught narrative essay writing with a pre-writing exercise, today taught proofreading and editing, and then forced the thirty kids in each class to proofread and edit for 45 silent minutes. Tomorrow, the kids rewrite their essays.
They may not like it, but they know to come in, shut up, and write correctly - or it’s public humiliation time.
You are a teacher after my own heart! Hurray for you. It’s refreshing to know that somewhere a teacher is still in control! I’m sure there are many more of you we don’t hear about. Many of my friends are teachers and talk about parents who come in and fight with them about their child’s grade. One even admitted writing her child’s paper and arguing she knew it was right. That she would even admit it is scary. We read here about college freshmen needing remedial reading classes. They graduate with high self esteem but not much else. You remind me of my high school French and algebra teachers. It was impossible to fake your way thru their classes. I still remember my French after 63 years! Your students will never forget you—you are doing them a great service. Congratulatons!
Diagramming is still great for using I or we. I love Dennis Prager who says it’s one of his passions. Our local weekly newspaper apparently has no editor; the errors in it are astonishing. The previous one passed away about 12 years ago. Nothing got past him. Guess I missed my calling; errors leap out at me from just about every book I read. I think Dick Cheney’s autobio has been the only exception.
My husband’s daugher-in-law went to Catholic school. She said her 3rd grade class had 60 students and that it was a very orderly, mannerly classroom.
I’m really bad - I make corrections in books.if they are my own, right on the page, if the book is someone else’s or from the library I use post-it notes.
I spent 12 years in Catholic schools and through 4th grade we had between 50 and 60 in a class. It wasn’t until I was in HS was I ever in a class with less than 35, never mind less than 20 like some of my daughter’s classes have been.
As you mentioned to another poster, there are teachers who actually do teach, and teach properly. Alas, few ever hear of them. I have tried to make a point of letting the PTB know how I feel about the exceptional teachers my daughter has had, they deserve the credit. I also have found that by doing so, on the few occasions I have had a serious issue with a teacher my concern was not blown off.
I truly feel for teachers who are subjected to the type of parents, usually mothers, who will not accept the fact their precious angel is not all that.
Have you see this here?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2932405/posts?page=1
While typing this I recalled two of my seventh grade teacher’s examples. One was talking about the rule of never ending a sentence with a prepostion (she never told us what the punishment would be!) and giving us the quote “up with with I have been fed”. The other was from a student who was writing a paper “I could smell my mother in the kitchen frying hamburgers”. Still makes me laugh after all these years. Fortunately I’ve forgotten those little traumatic experiences of early childhood! Guess I should say I got over them.
No I hadn’t seen that. I do remember when I was in elementary school (66-74) there was a girl in my class who was a Buddhist. No special arrangements were made for her, and while she did not attend Mass on Sunday with the class (as the rest of us were required) she did attend when we went during class time.
The author of the article posted is Bob Beauprez, not Kirsten Powers.
I took it as poetic license to set a tone.
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