Posted on 01/31/2018 9:18:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania teacher has apologized for intentionally misspelling Hillary Clinton's name to emphasize the word "liar" in a sixth-grade student's letter.
Shannon Reinard tells The Daily Item her 11-year-old stepdaughter, Mary, asked Shikellamy Middle School teacher Benjamin Attinger for help writing the letter to the former presidential candidate. She wrote the letter and Attinger addressed it Hiliar Rodham Clinton.
Her stepmom noticed the misspelling and in a voicemail the teacher said it was "kind of a joke."
The Reinard family met with the teacher and school officials on Tuesday.
Shannon Reinard says the teacher apologized to the student.
Become a unionized public school teacher, check your First Amendment rights at the door.
That teacher is finished.
But if she had said “F*** Trump” she would not have had to apologize.
She might have even gotten a promotion.
I’m guessing a FReeper.
Read it again. The teacher addressed the letter from the student. Now it looks like that’s what the student wanted. He wasn’t speaking for himself.
Dumb.
Should have said: "What? Oh, shoot. Wow, that's a heck of a spelling mistake. How'd that happen?"
Let’s keep politics out of school.
Period.
Raises the question “just how much mail DOES Hillary receive that is addressed to Liar?”
If you squint a little you can see the school’s name and return address on the envelope. Now it looks like it’s also an official position of the school. No good.
She could have said it was because she had a cold.
An 11 year old doesn't know how to address a letter? This simple task is now taught in SIXTH grade? And the TEACHER had to write it out instead of teaching the kid how to do it? More proof that texting and Email continues to destroy intelligence. Pretty soon we'll all be drooling like Kennedy.
Should have used two ‘l’s: Hilliary
Hilarious...
Per the Daily Item Article:
The issue started last week when Mary found a story on the internet about Clinton possibly speaking to the dead. There have been reports over the years of Clinton imagining she is speaking with historical figures like Eleanor Roosevelt as a therapeutic release.
Having lost a baby sister nearly a decade ago, Mary wanted to know if it was true and asked Attinger for assistance in writing the letter.
Attinger later left her a voicemail admitting he did it as a joke between him and Mary. Shannon Reinard provided a recording of that voicemail to The Daily Item.
“When I addressed it, I put liar in the name because I was telling her it (talking to the dead) wasn’t true,” Attinger said in the voicemail. “It was kind of a joke. I didn’t really expect it to be taken the way that apparently she took it. I apologize.”
Attinger did not respond to calls from The Daily Item on Tuesday.
“He can write a letter himself and call her a liar,” Shannon Reinard said. “Don’t channel it through my 11-year-old daughter.”
Shawn Reinard said he originally saw humor in the letter, but noticed how upset Mary was and immediately changed his tune.
“I’m angry,” Shawn Reinard said. “Whether I agree or not, you keep that out of school. His student asked him for help, and he failed as a teacher. At minimum, he owes my little girl a public apology.”
Shawn Reinard said he didn’t vote in the presidential election but said he would have supported Trump. Shannon Reinard said she voted for Clinton
Am I missing something? Is there a reason why an 11-year-old couldn’t address her own letter, or at the very least look it up on her cell phone.
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Barf!
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The teacher should be ashamed. he forgot the prefix “crooked”
It’s funny because it’s true.
Why couldn’t an 11th grader write a letter without assistance?
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