tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post3444290765873991284..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: What A Lousy ExcuseDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-29175431456656683242014-09-20T19:50:49.713-07:002014-09-20T19:50:49.713-07:00I'll give leeway, to a certain extent, on spok...I'll give leeway, to a certain extent, on spoken word ... although I have a few errors that make me cringe (I feel badly instead of I feel bad, women voters instead of female voters, and using myself when it isn;t reflexive and should be 'me') but if you're a teacher? You should be modeling good grammar all the time --- unless it's CLEAR that you're being colloquial. I still have nightmare images of my high school, very white, English teacher trying to do Twain's brilliant Negro dialect ... it wasn't blackface, but it was close.maxutilshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11294262473781967372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-37036268866638589922014-09-12T08:14:47.126-07:002014-09-12T08:14:47.126-07:00I felt we should cut her a little slack for her SP...I felt we should cut her a little slack for her SPOKEN English gaffes, but then I read the rest of her story and I couldn't understand why she kept going in her educational training if she knew she didn't have mastery of the subject. There's a lot of buck-passing going on there in that thick bureaucracy...pseudotsuganoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-87066921323740176442014-09-11T20:04:06.601-07:002014-09-11T20:04:06.601-07:00I don't understand why she didn't try to l...I don't understand why she didn't try to learn the material. I was in the same boat--was never taught any grammar--but I made efforts to learn. I put my own kids through the best grammar program I could find and I learned it too. Now I know what a transitive verb is. Why didn't she just make a study of grammar and spelling?Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.com