Posted on 04/05/2017 6:32:23 AM PDT by glorgau
I never get its/it’s right.
False empowerment. A bunch of adolescents, feeling they have the authority and responsibility to conduct this type of "investigative reporting". What is next, a review of the credentials of the Secretery of State or even the President...by a bunch of 17 year olds?
Most commenters on this thread have no idea how the principles are selected and don't realize it is a politicized popularity contest. In most school districts there is a selection committee comprised of teachers and administrators that does the interview and selection. All too often the candidates are peers of the selection group.
I suspect someone in that selection committee did not like the selectee, did the leg work and supplied the motive and information to the students who craved the credit.
I can’t resist linking to this great article by Robert Weissberg. http://www.unz.com/article/education-the-new-agriculture. Weissberg explains how “education” employs hundreds of thousands of useless dummies who are otherwise unemployable. Fake credentials are just part of the game.
Heheh. Very close to copyright infringement.
Our principal in grade school was a lineman who had started as a freshman for Fordham (during WWII), in the tradition of the Seven Blocks Of Granite. Quiet, nice, but you knew not to mess with him!
Nice story. The far bigger issue is all the thousands of supposedly “legitimate” education degrees that aren’t worth a cup of warm spit.
Its, without an apostrophe, is the possessive of the pronoun it. It’s, with an apostrophe, is a contraction of it is or it has. If you’re not sure which spelling to use, try replacing it with it is or it has. If neither of those phrases works in its place, then its is the word you’re looking for.
Then see post #40 above.
I think somebody’s been making up new rules to aid very confused younger writers, because an apostrophe actually is correctly used with a possessive, and with a contraction. It’s just not used with a plural.
Ping!
I was on the faculty of a university that all of you would recognize and we were looking for a new Dean of the College of Business. We found a great candidate, Harvard Ph.D. in economics, great credentials, publications, and experience. Brought him for a visit, which went very well. Then, during routine background check, we discovered it was all a lie. No degrees, no credentials, but he did have prior university-level work experience with rec’s from those faculty. As faculty, we wondered how he got as far as he did, as the Search Committee should have caught it a lot earlier.
I’m calling my lawyers ASAP.;-)
Thank you.
Put these kids in charge of researching Trump’s “Russia” problem.
I think we’d see some Democrats and former admin members go to jail.
Looks like she got duped into attending a fake online college. They appear to be tied to “Connect Shift Ltd” and operate out of Larnaca, Cyprus.
50,000+ people also got duped it seems.
I always remember the difference by considering that the contraction of “it is” is more significant - as it actually leaves out a letter, so it needs the apostrophe to fill in for that.
While the “its” possessive is just adding the single s - no actual letters are harmed in the making of the word - so the authorities decided it doesn’t need the apostrophe.
Just a little trick I made up for myself to remember the difference.
Well, we got no class
And we got no principals
We ain't got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes
LOL!
Overlooked? Or bought off? I’d keep investigating.
obviously, these students hate women. But, it is safe to say that the person in question is white since no thoroughly indoctrinated high school student would dare question the credentials of a black woman.
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