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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I’m on the receiving end of English teachers like her.
Students coming out of high school today can barely put words together to form a coherent thought. They would have certainly failed English classes in high school during my time.
Administrators and potential employers demand that these people, failed by incompetent teachers and course requirements be able to speak, read, and comprehend in a fluent manner yet they no longer teach those basic skills in most high schools today; at least not in a successful way. They expect college level courses to piecemeal teach makeup English across the curriculum (in each course taken) instead of requiring remedial courses. This accomplishes nothing to make up for the poor performance of K-12 English teachers.
English teachers of late are generally failing in their duty to provide students educated in the written and spoken language arts and compare poorly when matched against a successful man who has reached to top of each of his careers.
Ol’ George may not have been the sharpest President, since he apparently wasn’t aware of his actual first name... either
“I am in no ways tired...”
When referring to the President or the Office of the President it is customary to capitalize the word President.
a bitter old leftist hag being the hateful, obnoxious person she has always been.
How childish.
This says more about her, than the President.
It was a fantastic letter! It sounded like it was written by an honest, heterosexual alpha male!
LOL, I bet her former students did worse than Trump. Bad English grammar and 5B in the bank, I could live with that.
HEY!!
I resemble that remark!
I simply do not enjoy speedbumps when I read...
Oh I am real sure she graded it the same as she graded her students. Not. I have seen what passes for mid school and even high school writing now.
I see errors in all sorts of business and political writing now, some of the things we learned are no longer expected. She is just trying to stir the pot because of her hatred of Trump and her support of the dims. Many of the dim political leaders cannot speak a coherent sentence, pretty sure they can’t write a proper letter. I would love to see her correct a letter from say Maxine Waters.
Wondering how her students turned out, many nowadays can’t write a letter at all or understand where to put the return address on an envelope! I kid you not.
Probably written by some agency admin., and the President’s name is an auto signature that goes on everything! Good going, you got some democrat fired to be sure!
Exquisite. . . .really? Probably a word most of her students are now using to mischaracterize on a frequent basis.
dictionary.com
adjective
1.of special beauty or charm, or rare and appealing excellence, as a face, a flower, coloring, music, or poetry.
2.extraordinarily fine or admirable; consummate:
exquisite weather.
3.intense; acute, or keen, as pleasure or pain.
If you watch the video at the link, you have to pause it when it gets to the letter.
Who here would reject a letter from the POTUS, even if it was written in crayon on a brown paper bag?This is very rude.
Thats probably the first thing that triggered her.
>> We know who didn’t read the article <<
Haven’t you been around long enough to know that “reading the articles” is not a common practice in these lofty precincts?
I wonder what kind of teacher she was.
You don't publicly shame people like this for writing a personal letter.
I hope she didn't do this to her students.
Some people just can’t help being jerks.
I still get called a newbie!
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