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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Depends on usage. When referring to POTUS, "President" is capitalized. The president of a company is not.
The ingrate sounds like some union-thug educRAT.
And those that can't teach...Administrate.
Id like to know how she would grade the message of those letters, although I already know the answer.
And why is this news? Simply a means to embarrass the President of the United States. Why isn’t she grateful that she received a personal response?
So what??? He still beat the "smartest woman in the world".
I wonder which MSM outlet will give this woman her own show, or build an entire sitcom around her character.
Another anti-gun teacher - don’t really care what she thinks but - does she actually think Trump wrote the letter?
Also, the sentence structure itself is correct (which is what really pisses her off) - she’s only objecting to the capitalization of State, Nation and President which is consistently punctuated throughout (makes me wonder if there’s a particular style guide they’re using) Pretty pedantic and petty and merely a political attack for her to throw a temper tantrum like the Parkland Punks.
Silly, limited intelligence and disrespectful. A true Democrat.
Bite me, b!tch.
I’m sure not-president Hillary has perfect grammar.
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Me Too!
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Too bad teachers didn’t spend more time doing that with their students instead of left wing indoctrination.
I assume you all know that this teacher posts on Free Republic. I can’t remember the screen name, I think it is Humble- something or other. Small world, isn’t it?
Some anti-military bitch/bastard corrected his spelling, grammar, whatever in his request and sent it back denying the diploma.
This is super important!
There was too much use of the I did this, I did that in the letter. Agree with the teacher. I would expect Obama to sign off on it but Id like to hope Trump’s people would weed out the most egotistic sounding themes.
The capitalizing of Nation and Federal and such is just damn wrong. Id be ashamed our president sent it out too.
I love what President Trump is doing, but this letter was atrociously written. Id like to think that if you are hired to write correspondence for our President youd write at least as well as me.
I’ve written several letters to linda.
1. She takes six weeks to respond, if at all.
2. She rarely addresses to subject of my letter to her. Many times she’ll resort to formm-letter-ese. Worthless.
She’s trying to create a “potato(e)” moment. New dem ads will say...”do you really want a president that can’t even compose a letter”?!
Perhaps now someone can teach this self-righteous fool a little class (if class can in fact be learned by the truly ignorant).
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