I guess they feel they did nothing wrong.

Wanna save big money and improve schools at the same time? Shut down every “School of Education” in the country.

there is a big difference between being educated and being smart.

“…please do not hesitate to contact me , or Principal King…”

This letter has a lot of Eduspeak in it, but I believe you say “contact me”, not “contact myself”. You split the sentence into two pieces when you’re not sure. What would you say if you wanted them to contact just you? You would say, “Contact me.” What would you say if you wanted them to contact just Principal King? You would say, “Contact Principal King.” So, to have a grammatically correct sentence with these two grammatically correct halves, you just stick them together. “Please do not hesitate to contact me, or Principal King.”

Lots of people say “contact myself”, but they should say “contact me.”

There. I feel better.

What possible excuse could a Superintendent of Schools have for poor writing?

If you spent any time working with the public school system you will soon realize that stupid is a common symptom exhibited in it.

I’ve dealt with high school kids who didn’t know what the Constitution meant or that it even existed. They didn’t have a grasp of geography or history or English. Makes you wonder what they do all day. Until you meet some of the teachers. I watch the comedy videos of hosts asking questions of university students who don’t know Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson, the dates of the Revolution or even a basis history facts. It’s funny and painful at the same time. We are educating idiots intentionally.

Let me say not all teachers are bad, but there is enough bad ones sprinkled in the mix to spoil the lot. This is one reason the NEA backs the left. They know they will never be held accountable for their generations of bad acts.

Shameful.

Because I can’t come up with any other reason why these guys haven’t already been tarred & feathered by the locals…

after the text that was released to the press. When your super talks writes like that, how much can we expect out of the competence of those teaching? This guys needs to be fired ASAP, oh I am sorry for those in his district ASAP means “as soon as possible” or post haste.

should be required to take training courses (starting with a history class on the rise of dictatorships and child indoctrination in schools). Kind of like all that sensitivity training or “diversity training” we were all required to take in private industry in the 90s.

Since when is June black history month? The video was shot in June according to a New Jersey Republican blog

and did it bad on purpose knowing that he would not read it as it was just a nuance that needed a response.

I’ve been through Burlington numerous times… its a rather run down blue collar town hit by flight of both commercial and residential. Rt. 130 which is the main thoroughfare in town is dotted with abandoned shopping centers and vacant stores and those stores that are left look like they haven’t been redecorated since the late ’40s when they were built. It is a sleepy little town.

Someone used the term enclave in a previous post, and this would be appropriate. The population is primarily African-American and Democrat so I’m sure there is a certain sense of pride to the community for Barack Obama. Unfortunately, this is encroaching in elements that it shouldn’t like school children singing such songs.

To quote the Superintendent… “The recording and distribution of the class activity were unauthorized.” Why wasn’t the activity itself authorized by the parents? In an interview on I believe it was Greta, he said a letter was sent out to the parents and they gave permission, (to that effect)… However, yesterday morning on Fox & Friends, parents from the district were outraged and stated they were never informed. Had they known they would’ve made that known to the school district… in other words… the Superintendent and the teachers did this on purpose.

I’m inclined to believe the parents.

Moe:

If you’re going to correct someone’s grammar, first make sure you know something about grammar yourself.

Case in point: “please do not hesitate to contact me either myself, or Dr. Principal King, Principalof B. Bernice Young School, directly.”

The modern conceit is that ‘myself’ can be used as subject, direct and indirect object. It cannot. Its usage in these positions indicates that the user lacks a sufficient knowledge of English grammar.

‘Myself’ is a reflexive pronoun that has a self- or other-referential use for emphatic purposes. It is not meant to be used as a subject or object pronoun but as a sort of appositional after a subject noun/pronoun. Example: ‘I, myself, rejected Obama’s healthcare plan.’ That’s the emphatic usage of ‘myself’ after the subject pronoun ‘I’.

Only subject pronouns (I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they) may be subjects of verbs. Only object pronouns (me, you, him/her/it, us, you, them) may be objects of verbs. Reflexives (myself, yourself, himself/herself/itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves) may not be either subject or object but (and I’m repeating myself) will place emphasis on either.

Therefore, you err when you modify the above with ‘contact either myself’. The Superintendent may not be a noteworthy scribe, but his grammar is better than yours. The statement is correct as written: ‘please do not hesitate to contact me or Dr. King, Principal of B. Bernice Young School’.

In the first case, the implied subject of the sentence is ‘you’; in the second case, since there are only two alternatives, there is no need for a comma after your error; in the third case, Dr. King, Principal… is quite correct because Principal… is an appositional noun phrase that explains Dr. King, whose quite proper salutation is ‘Dr. King’ and not ‘Principal King’.

I understand that you might feel a desire to do a takedown of this Superintendent. Please manage to do it without making yourself look unknowing.

So, leave copy-editing to the big dogs. That’s me. It’s what I do.

I arrived late to this party but I gotta give them credit. This is multi-level pointless, meaning, clearly produced by a State A&M School of Edchucashun graduate. It makes a statement of the obvious (poorly the first go ’round apparently and not much better on the re-do)… and that’s it. If that’s all there is, why bother? What’s next? A letter from the Super telling the parents they’re closed on the weekend? Multi-level pointlessness. How many hit points in D&D do you get for that? Also, not sure that anyone noticed, but if you follow the link to the school district, as an IT professional, it’s my opinion that that is one of the singular worst websites (linked from the original post) ever, so much so that I’m nominating it to WebPagesThatSuck.com.

I heard that the kiddies were outfitted in little uniforms and were taught to march around the outside of the schoolyard in double time step in order to prepare them for the new National Anthem presently being written by Yes We Can writer Will.i.am and the rest of the brainless drones on his video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk

http://www.jeannie-ology.com

A Fox News commentator on Sunday suggested that Schoolkids did the same for Bush.

You be the judge :

At a White House Easter Egg Hunt, kids from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang this to Mrs. Bush:

Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!

Compared to:

Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!

Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!