Posted on 05/31/2018 10:05:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
At least she didn't put a grade on the letter.
That might be the nicest thing to be said about a recently retired South Carolina high school teacher's response to a form letter she received from the White House and signed by President Donald Trump.
"I have never, ever, received a letter with this many silly mistakes," Yvonne Mason said, greenvilleonline.com reported.
So what was the response of the educator who retired after 17 years of teaching English at Hughes Middle School and Mauldin High School in Greenville County?
The 61-year-old, who retired in 2017, corrected the mistakes by marking up the letter. Mason shared her edits on Facebook with the pledge that she was sending it to the White House.
Among the many comments Mason wrote on the letter were:
▪ "Have y'all tried grammar & style check?"
▪ "Not parts of proper noun construction"
▪ "OMG this is WRONG!"
The letter from the White House, with Trump's signature, was a response to Mason. The Democrat, who now lives in Atlanta, wrote to Trump asking him to visit the families of the 17 people killed in the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., The New York Times reported.
The response Mason received focused on what the president has done in the aftermath of the shooting.
"It didn't address the letter I wrote," Mason said to greenvilleonline.com.
There is no word if Mason's critique was received, as the White House has not commented on the issue. She has not posted about any further feedback from Trump.
What Mason is clear about is her dismay with the overuse of the "I" in Trump's letter. The retired teacher highlighted "I" five times in her markup.
And if she was going to give the president's letter a grade, what would it be? That depends: Is Trump writing at a middle school or high school level?
"If it had been written in middle school, I'd give it a C or C-plus," Mason told greenvillenews.com. "If it had been written in high school, I'd give it a D."
“It was a poorly worded missive,” Mason said, according to The New York Times. “Poor writing is not something I abide. If someone is capable of doing better, then they should do better.”
I’ve had teachers and professors, who were that petty. Was always glad to see the back end of them, and never have to take their classes again.
She should do this to the front page of the NYT every day. :-D
That’s grounds for impeachment.
Another Liberal display of arrogance.
Seems to be a common characteristic of these folks.
"Did you try grammar and style check?"
▪ "Not parts of proper noun construction"
"Incorrect proper noun designation."
▪ "OMG this is WRONG!"
Can't help this one.
YAWN
I saw in a previous article that the capitalization’s she complains about are in the Office of Personnel Management Style Guide for Official Correspondence. Thus she is wrong about the capitalization ‘errors’.
Trump doesn’t write those letters. Can you imagine him sitting at a keyboard and type up this letter?
People are so naive.
If a teacher had done this to one of Obumagabe’s letters, would the MSM give her such fawning coverage?
Naaaa. If they acknowledged her at all it would be to savage her and hold her up for ridicule.
It’s hard for me to read the imaged text, but the corrections appear to be Mostly Pedantic. Should we fuss over her “OMG”? Does that pass muster with the style guide? OMG.
Does anyone think that he may have written it to the level of the reader?
[[If someone is capable of doing better, then they should do better.”]]
Yes- because life comes to a screeching halt for the anally obsessive when someone doesn’t get their punctuation right
She claims “I signed into law legislation” is wrong because he didn’t identify the agency.That is the correct use of the term
Did this teacher inform Obama that the U.S. is NOT comprised of 57 states?
Or that “Corps” is not pronounced corpse.?
This story is a week old. Keep up with the program.
Old story - the memo confirms to the USGS style guide.
The teacher is a typical union goon twit.
The Left always loses the debate in the forum of ideas because there is NO substantive rationale to the Left’s positions.
So among other things, the Left nit-picks form over substance. Often they are wrong, even on those nit-picky things. Some of this teacher’s corrections are questionable. But the point is, the Left are LOSERS and can’t argue their way out of a paper bag.
I’m sure she was all over Obama’s letters and speeches ya’ll.
https://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/terence-p-jeffrey/i-me-my-obama-uses-first-person-singular-199-times-speech-vowing
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