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To: Oldpuppymax

It appears to be more predominate in Blacks but when my youngest daughter had gotten a couple of A’s on some English papers and wanted a ‘reward’ (or at least some recognition - I came up ‘short’ in heaping praise) and after my obligatory ‘An A is no less than what I expect’ I kind of eyeballed it and there were some glaring punctuation and spelling errors (I say glaring because a misspelled word kind of ‘jumps off the paper’ at me) and I did contact the teacher and asked why an ‘A’ with all the mistakes....I was very bluntly told the score was for the work and presentation, it had nothing to do with spelling or grammar AND I should be encouraging her, not nit picking....

And this was in Fairfax County VA about 25 or so years ago.


50 posted on 02/10/2014 10:37:04 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --Every wonder why when they refer to People of Color it doesn't include Asians??)
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To: xrmusn

That would be “predominant.” It kind of jumped off the page at me.


80 posted on 02/10/2014 12:11:19 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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