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 >>> [log in to unmask] 01/26/01 11:57AM >>> 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. ******************************************* Rebecca S. Wheeler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of English Christopher Newport University 1 University Place Newport News, VA 23606-2998 Editor, Syntax in the Schools The Journal of the Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG), an assembly of the NCTE http://www.ateg.org/ phone: (757) 594-8891; fax: (757) 594-8870 email: [log in to unmask] ******************************************* To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/