Re: Grammar

heh...yeah, I'm encouraged by the fact that Cecilia is teaching too. I
hope she's able to be effective in a Brooklyn classroom.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> 'The hungry sheep look up & are not fed....'
>
> I don't have any fears for the likes of Lucy-Ruth or
> Amber, though. I'm just delighted - but not surprised,
> since they're obviously natural writers - that their instinctive
> curiosity about the ways of language has survived
> the currently fashionable indifference to grammar among
> 'teachers' of English.
>
> I can imagine how smugly those same teachers will claim
> credit for the girls'originality & creativity; when, really,
> all they've done is neglect the ability of the rest of their
> children to link one clear thought to another.
>
> One crowd I do feel slightly sorry for are the unsuspecting
> victims in Class 2a, New York Central Academy for
> the Socially Deprived. They've had it all too easy up to now.
> Not any longer. Even as I write, Miss Baader is on her way
> with a bloody great trolleyful of 'Grammar for Morons'.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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