I object to the posting to, but I also don't want to silence a
voice, however rude.  One of the benefits of this kind of posting,
and perhaps its only one, is that we see and can prepare for this
sort of response.  When we take education and, specifically,
grammar issues public, as before school boards, we should expect
this, among other sorts of response, and be prepared to answer
them or deflect them.  What's particularly important, following up
on Tannen's work already cited in this thread, is to avoid falling
into the same kind of argument.

Herb

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I strongly object to the insulting tenor of this posting. This
style of
self-expression does not befit our work as teachers/scholars.

If this sort of posting persisted, I would suggest that this list
become
moderated, so to assure the caliber and integrity of the
postings.

In concern,

Rebecca Wheeler


Robert Reis wrote:

>
>
> [2] For instance, school superintendents as a class are
virtually the
> stupidest people to pass through a graduate college program,
ranking
> 51 points below the elementary school teachers they normally
> "supervise," (on the Graduate Record Examination), and about 80
points
> below secondary school teachers; while teachers themselves as
an
> aggregate finish seventeenth of twenty occupational groups
surveyed.
> The reader is of course, at liberty to believe this happened
> accidentally, or that the moon is composed of blue, not green
cheese
> as is popularly believed.

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