Posted on 02/21/2013 9:42:57 PM PST by lowbridge
A high school English teacher has refused to grade two students' papers because they mentioned guns.
Marshall Williams and Alex Wright, seniors at Denton High School in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, said the teacher, Dewey Christian, set an assignment to write a report about anything they wanted.
Williams referenced a trip he had taken to the Fort Worth gun show, while Wright recounted a hunting trip, but both said the papers did not describe shooting guns.
'I said, "Me and my mum went to buy a gun" and as soon as he heard the word gun he told me to sit down,' Wright told My Fox Dallas-Fort Worth.
Both boys were told they would get a zero on the assignment because of the topic and were reprimanded in front of their peers, the news channel reported. k
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Teacher needs to be fired.
I am totally series.
Fired.
This story is suspect!
‘I said, “Me and my mum went to buy a gun” and as soon as he heard the word gun he told me to sit down,’
Despite the poor grammar, would any kit from Texas say Me and my mum?
Nope.
But, this was no doubt yellow-journalistic license, dontcha know. It's a limey paper. And, it's all 'bout them iggnernant Texans, that place where Bush came from, you see. And, we sophistercated Limeys can't talk about them respectful. Ever.
As for that old saying about the two things that come out of Texas, it’s starting to look like the steers are becoming heavily outnumbered.
“This story is suspect!”
It’s from the Daily Mail in the U.K. That would be how a Brit would talk. That said, The Mail usually has good information (better a lot of times than our own press) so maybe they were paraphrasing what was said.
“Despite the poor grammar, would any kit from Texas say Me and my mum?”
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Actually, it’s not. It’s the Queen’s language. As an ex-Canadian who grew up and learned to spell “honor” with “honour”. BTW, the Daily Mail is a British tabloid and they were speaking to their audiences, not precisely American.
My son came home just the other day from elementary school with a note. The teacher complained that my boy was playing “guns” and was shooting other kids with his finger.
I asked him what had happened and he told me he got in trouble for playing in the cafeteria during lunchtime. Of course, that part was never mentioned in the note.
You may euphamistically call it paraphrasing, but it appears in quotes, or rather quotes within quotes. Which, if it isn’t what the kid said, to me is outright lying.
Shot.
Interesting excerpt from the mother-teacher convesation here (teacher running for cover)
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/21291400/teacher-refused-to-grade-report-on-guns-mom-says
It is poor grammar in either dialect. It should have been “my Mum and I”. My teacher always said that when referring to yourself and another person in the same breath it is a basic courtesy to put the other person first.
It is poor grammar in either dialect. It should have been “my Mum and I”. My teacher always said that when referring to yourself and another person in the same breath it is a basic courtesy to put the other person first.
Teacher, is it OK if I talk about all the cool gun fights I saw in Chicago when I visited my relatives?
He is the guy, and we should be playing the liberals’ demonization card by raising the roof about the disrespecting, marginalization, and intimidation of law-abiding citizens by self-appointed moral vigilantes like him who attempt to impose their vision of the world on everyone else.
Yet another AA hire for the government schools...get your children out of these dumps NOW.
So the teacher told the student that he was sorry that the student did not understand him correctly when informed of the zero grade due to content?
Give me a break...the teacher's not sorry for anything.
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