Posted on 05/26/2018 11:48:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A retired high school English teacher says a letter she received from President Trump would have barely earned passing marks, so she corrected the letter and sent it back to the White House.
Yvonne Mason, an Atlanta resident who retired this year after teaching middle and high school students in South Carolina for 17 years, corrected grammatical mistakes in the letter bearing Trump's signature, including 11 instances of improper capitalization of words like "president" and "state."
"If it had been written in middle school, I'd give it a C or C-plus," Mason told South Carolina's Greenville News. "If it had been written in high school, I'd give it a D."
She did not attach a letter grade in the letter she sent back to the White House.
Mason acknowledges the letter was likely written by a staffer. She received it after penning a letter requesting that Trump meet individually with the families who lost loved ones in the Feb. 14 high school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
"When you get letters from the highest level of government, you expect them to be at least mechanically correct," she told the newspaper.
"It's stylistically appalling," she added, comparing Trump's writing to the "exquisite" letters she's received from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R) office.
The teacher said the White House response did not address her request specifically.
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That was my exact thought too...lol
And many are simple ignorance. For instance we capitalized proper names. Titles are proper names when they are the referent to a specific individual who is known by that title. You might say I am president of my PTA since no one calls you exclusively President in that position. But President is the name of a specific person - DJT - properly called by this title and not by some other proper name, say, Trump, or Don. It's like the crown, a thing worn by the Queen and the Crown, the proper noun denoting the Queen in her capacity as head of state.
You blew it dood or doodess!
That wasn't a misspelling, that was a faked typo
All I want to know, is which FReeper grammar patrol officer it is
Its their life mission to show superiority no matter who it is.
Get a life folks. The rest of us may be imperfect, but at least we recognize it, and can live with others accepting auto correct and other misques will happen.
“It’s stylistically appalling,” she added, comparing Trump’s writing to the “exquisite” letters she’s received from South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R) office.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a setup from the fag himself.
Photo of a letter from Obama where he capitalizes 'Nation'.
She sounds like quite a contentious lady.
She sounds like quite a contentious lady.
Well kids, let this be a lesson to you. You can be like the billionaire real estate developer who is leader of the free world with a beautiful family, or you can be like the petty teacher who lives with a dozen cats.
We'll never know.
Criminals, elected or tenured, never write anything down...
The language changes over time. I’m sure whatever letter she would write would be judged just as harshly by a teacher of 1900, or 1850. However, it’s unlikely President Trump wrote it, read it, or signed it.
Are you talking about mumblegummer? ☺
...and I assume you have some means of documentation.
Do share, so we can all have fun.
Picayune
This teacher is guilty of the typical leftists debating tactics that Ben educates us on. She assumes a rightness of the argument, clouds herself in moral superiority and tries to put us on the defensive - jeeze, you support Trump and he can't even pass 3rd grade English.
No sane person would go around attempting to demonstrate intellectual superiority or superior command of a field of knowledge. It is unwarranted egotism and demonstrates ignorance that on any subject their are many of our fellow humans who know far more about it that you possibly could.
The democrats probably pay her better than the school from which she retired. Paid protesters make a fair wage creating nasty ways to attack our President.
By the way, how do ya know that? Thanks!
"...as well as me???"
: ) no ebonics, please...
Id hope they would write better than I do!!! Much better!
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