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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Assistant Professor
Department of English
Christopher Newport University
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Editor, Syntax in the Schools
The Journal of the Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG), an
assembly of the NCTE
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