Regarding Robert Reis' post:

I'd like to request that we keep to the purpose of this listserve, which
is to discuss the teaching of grammar.  I get enough junk e-mail as it is.

At 2:17 AM -0500 4/7/01, Robert Reis wrote:
>Last Friday, after seven high school sophomores in a row had demonstrated
>that they could not utilize the concepts "same" and "different", I noticed
>that one of my Polish immigrant students was looking extremely depressed. I
>asked her why and she came over to my desk and said,
>"The kids in this school are stupid and this school is dumb."
>She has been in the U.S.A. for three years. She told me that Polish schools
>are far more rigorous.
>I mentioned that Polish immigrants have been coming to our area in large
>numbers for about twenty years and asked her if they had been writing to
>Poland explaining that the students are stupid and the schools are dumb.
>She said that such letters were sent to Poland regularly.
>I asked her why Polish people kept coming here with their children. She
>replied, "They never believe our letters."
>

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