I might agree with you if your talking about a writing an important assignment, etc. and there were gross mispellings. However, to simply say because your a teacher you can't misspell words on a Saturday morning on an informal board. Give me a break. Now your just nitpicking.
For example - in my area this year, the school district got a double payment from the state, by mistake. It amounted to over $850,000...big bucks for a rural area.
Instead of correcting it - they spent it.
When it was made public, they simply expected us taxpayers to come up with the shortfall.
It was put to a vote - in mid-May - with the district threatening that if we didn't okay it, the school would shut down immediately and the seniors would not graduate - indeed, seniors were told they wouldn't have their finals, their prom, their awards/presentation ceremony, etc, and would have to attend summer school to make up and graduate. (This was pretty standard scare tactics that had worked - sort of - in the past.)
The voters said no.
So, per usual, it was put to a second vote, with more dire predictions. The voters said NO!
So they went to the strategy that has always worked in the past to overturn the public vote - a straw vote at a meeting that usually consisted of about 80% teachers and teachers families.
Oops. The vote was still NO!
Guess what? The kids had their finals, got their caps and gowns, had their prom and awards/presentations night and graduation day!
However, half the teachers refused to attend the graduation ceremonies, to, as they said, "make a statement."
We got the message - we learned who the great teachers were - they were there, in support of the kids.
Tee hee - "because your you're a teacher..."
There's that pesky grammar thing again.
Well, see, it's like this. This thread is about teaching, teachers, standards, etc., - so shouldn't errors in spelling, grammar and math be held to a higher level?
If the thread were about "global warming" (barf, excuse the example) wouldn't we object to junk science postulations?
It's always to pick on the new guy....
Ahem, alvindsv, that really should be something like:
I might agree with you if your you were talking about a writing an important assignment, etc. and there were gross mispelling misspellings. However, to simply say [that] because your you are a teacher [that] you can't misspell words on a Saturday morning on an informal board [possibly missing a conclusion]. Give me a break. Now your you are just nitpicking.
Final point, FR is not an informal board. "Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. ". We do have threads that are formal, some are definitely informal, some defy classification. And, just like a new student in a classroom, as you begin to navigate the FR forums, you will encounter some rules that are written, and some are not written. You may not even know that you have broken a rule until someone brings it up. ;)
Welcome to FR, by the way!!