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." > 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/