Comments on: Arne Duncan, Your Junior High English Teacher Called….

By: conservativepup

conservativepup — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:40:36 +0000

Hi Teresa,
Thanks for visiting and for the comment. And thank you too, for the punctuation lesson. I confess that I double-checked your information with The Blue Book of Grammar, and you are absolutely correct, and I appreciate you letting me know this.

Fortunately for the nation, I’m not up for Secretary of Education.

Please come back by and please comment anytime.
Thanks again.

Pup

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:19:02 +0000

I also noticed it right away. It’s very sad that the Education Secretary can’t properly speak his native language.

By the way, I noticed this error in your article:

Oh, I don’t mean that I’ll drop a friend because they misspeak, or even because they might habitually speak “grammatically incorrectly”.

The period should ALWAYS be placed inside the quotation marks. Conservativepup made the same mistake in his/her comment.

By: conservativepup

conservativepup — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:11:29 +0000

Yes, it does. And if a Republican had suggested establishing a school for gay youth, it would have been treated as an outrage.

By: kathy

kathy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:55:55 +0000

It reminds me of the time they had segregated schools in the south.

By: conservativepup

conservativepup — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:24:30 +0000

I read that too. That’s what’s so incongruent about the liberals–progressives, I mean, or as Bill O’Reilly calls them–secular progressives. It’s incongruent that they create a special school for a group of people, yet talk about diversity and inclusiveness all the time.

Doesn’t make any sense.

By: kathy

kathy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:14:04 +0000

As to this Arne guy, I read an article about the new “gay” school that is a pilot in Chicago and he is the big promoter of it. There’s goes our tax dollars again…for special interest schools.

By: conservativepup

conservativepup — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:52:03 +0000

Glad it gave you a chuckle! And have you noticed how many reporters use bad grammar these days, too?

And yes, I’ve read that somewhere too.

Oh well. You know, I have a niece who’s homeschooling her three, and I find myself really hoping that more and more people will start to home school. That would go a long way toward getting things back to how they “should be”.

By: kathy

kathy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:51 +0000

Pup, you’re making my sides hurt…teehee! Somewhere I’ve read in a book…that the day will come…when right will be considered wrong…and wrong will be considered right…I think we’re there! I’m with you…I notice bad grammar and misspelling too…especially when it’s splashed across the tv screen!