Ilana Mercer gives us some info to consider........
By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers, moreover, don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy.
At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.
In any event, if you are a private-sector sucker plumping for a panoply of new government programs, consider the following: The more of them there are, the fewer of you there will be. Think zero-sum, or parasite vs. host. The first is sucking the lifeblood of the second. The larger the parasite gets, the weaker the host will grow.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=110931
Where does the writer think teachers and police officers and road workers et al should be paid from, if not taxes? Nobody but the individual decides where they want to work. It's their choice whether to work in the private sector or be a "stinky poo" Gov't employee. I have to argue her number facts too. She's trying to compare jobs with careers. Ya don't like the pay scale you are free to go elsewhere. Why does she think Gov't workers don't pay taxes? Al and I do, did and will. And teachers shouldn't vote? That's ridiculous. I didn't give up my citizenship when I became a teacher!
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 25, 2009, 10:29:52 AM
Where does the writer think teachers and police officers and road workers et al should be paid from, if not taxes? Nobody but the individual decides where they want to work. It's their choice whether to work in the private sector or be a "stinky poo" Gov't employee. I have to argue her number facts too. She's trying to compare jobs with careers. Ya don't like the pay scale you are free to go elsewhere. Why does she think Gov't workers don't pay taxes? Al and I do, did and will. And teachers shouldn't vote? That's ridiculous. I didn't give up my citizenship when I became a teacher!
yeah, I stopped reading Red's posts and links a long time ago. Just silliness
just where do people dig up this crap and try to pass it on as gospel????? >:( >:( >:( and why do so many take it as gospel and not give it some honest thought before passing it on ????? Everything found on the internet is not rock solid the truth and nothing but the truth. Truth be known, a lot of it isn't, it's just something to keep the pot stirred. God Bless those that keep our country safe; those that work to make sure our children get an education; those that patrol our streets and do what they can to detere crime; those that are honestly trying to make a difference. I'd lots rather my taxes go for their wages than where the "majority of my tax money" goes.
Sure glad this is the United States where this kind of BS can be put out and some idiots might even believe a little bit of it. I will agree that are some slackers in the government employment but the also just as many in the private sector. In the forty years that I worked for the state the private sector employees that I work with were always paid better per hour than I was. I also had to pay state and federal taxes just like everyone else.
Pam, as the MAIL CARRIER part of this forum, I agree whole heartedly. And NOT for myself...for the MILITARY! Absolutely crap! I'm not a pampered pig. I PAY for healthcare. I PAY taxes (and a nice healthy amount too)! I work my ass off to get what I have by walking 12-15 miles a day in the rain, in the heat, in the snow, in the sleet and ice, tornadoes, lightning, you name it, I walk in it!
ANYONE that puts down the fine military of this great country, can kiss my ass and get the hell out! They DIE for us. They died for that idiot to spout that crap. If you can't respect the military any more than that, move your ass out of the USA!
I think ya'll are missing some of the points Mrs. Mercer is trying to make. For example, would a private sector enterprise that is failing, for whatever reason, give pay raises to its employees? No. Do government employees get raises based on an increase in output? No. Then why are more of our tax dollars going to fund gov't raises? Teachers and Cops haven't really shown an increase in output, rather a decrease. Look at the public education system, you can't honestly argue that it has improved based on th product that it has turned out. Rather the quality of work it has produced has gotten steadily worse over the years. Law enforcement...please...If our criminal justice system was worth a damn folks wouldn't have to lock their doors at night or worry about wether or not they left their keys in their car. Just look at Chicago, a prime example of law enforcement at work. If the Postal Service is so successful please explain why companies like FedEx, UPS, and DHL are doing so well. As for taxes, Yes, taxes are taken out of gov't employees checks. However, when th money that makes up those checks comes from taxpayers, the money taken out of those checks also comes from taxpayers. There is not a single gov't enterprise that actually makes a profit.
Before all you teacher types go off on me, please explain how this type of behavior is acceptable. Aren't publicly funded schools supposed to watch out for the well-being of our children?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeYJTFh6dE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeYJTFh6dE)
Obviously, there is more to this story than is being put out there. I would have to read the case file in order to be able to speak intelligently to this particular instance speciifically...But, generally speaking...I have seen students that were so pervasive in their disorder that they were a threat to both themselves and others...They had to be sequestered until their parents could retrieve them...I have also seen students divest themselves of articles of clothing in order to attack others with them, though generally not down to their scivvies...emotional lability was an issue in these instances. In just listening to this, I would wonder what led to that ultimate end...This should be a cautionary tale to all administrators and teachers...Actions taken with the best of intentions (to assist someone from being a threat to themselves and others) can lead to lawsuits, unless you've very, very careful. Uh, in answer to your original question...Of course teachers and administrators are there to protect students...And that includes protecting the remaining student population from the one student who obviously has no control over their own behavior.
Quote from: Catwoman on September 26, 2009, 06:12:18 AM
And that includes protecting the remaining student population from the one student who obviously has no control over their own behavior.
Actually, there are measures in place that allow a child to be placed in a "calming room". However, teachers, administrators, and faculty have to be in the room with the child in order to insure that the child does not become a threat to themselves. Placing a child in a concrete room, in his underwear, and telling him to stand on an "x" on the floor, while a sheet is placed over the window is in clear violation of the rules. I seriously doubt that the child stripped himself of his clothing. This school should be shut down and the teacher and administrators responsible should be imprisoned for child endangerment and molestation. Protecting the remaining student population does not include molestation and unobserved solitary confinement of the offending student, especially when the offender IS ONLY 9 YEARS OLD. But then again, what else should we expect from government paid indoctrinators...opps...I meant educators?
The money and rules are coming from the Fed's.
Billy, you had it right the first time - it's indoctrinators.
There's been news on this forum regarding the possibility
of building a new public school in West Elk. Don't know
why would anyone would want to continue to support
a public school system? It would be easy to vote "no"
on that.
I have to agree with Cat on this one. If you've never been around a broad spectrum of " special '' kids you can't imagine the extreme problems some of them have. It isn't always lack of intelligence. The severe ones with extreme physical outbursts MUST be excluded from the general student population for the safety of all. Years ago ( here) the parents demanded that their special children be "taught." So special rooms or wings were built on schools to handle the fetal alcohol and drug kids and the ones that just were who they were. I have a good friend who worked with those kids for many years. She was very dedicated to them and you just can't understand unless you see it for yourself. She transferred to a regular school this year and has commented that she can finally wear real clothes to school , not blue jeans and tee shirts, with no fear of anyone trying to rip them off her. She can finally wear jewelry to school. The kids don't tear their own clothes off during out of control tantrums.
I'm not sure I agree with the actual time out room I saw, but I do understand the concept. Keep in mind, if you have to hire enough extra people to have a person in the room during the time out it adds extra expense, because that person isn't available to the other students during that time. Plus the whole idea is to limit "input" that's why the walls are plain.These kids can go on emotional overload very quickly. They don't do well in the usual busy classroom with lots of colorful posters on the walls and all the stuff you see as "normal." What would you have us do with these kids? Should they be institutionalized at an early age and forgotten? Should each one be in a separate room with a teacher and an aide? Should schools demand that the kids be home schooled? A few of you just don't get it, and don't want to. You are off on your own agendas that just don't work when the rubber hits the road. When a teacher is trying to keep an out of control kid from chewing off his own tongue during a melt down, "indoctrination" is the last thing on the teacher's mind.
I would pay money to watch some have to go to school, take the actual education courses and have to actually learn about what it is that they claim to be experts on...Ignorance is bliss...To everyone except those who have to listen to it.
The education that is taught to the children now is a whole different thing than what we were taught. Yes, there is still the main three R's - but it is much more complicated now. Starting in Kindergarten or soon after they learn the basics of computors and science is such much more and this "new" math is above my head. I can come up with the same answer, but how I arrive at this answer is not the way it is done now. Most of my grandchildren were studying in elementary what I had in high school. Anyone watch "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader"? Guess what, I have found I'm not and I doubt seriously anyone else my age is. May be smarter at life, but not when it comes to what they are learning at a much younger age. Geometry? that was an upper grade subject in highschool course. AND for a teacher to be able to teach their students on this level of learning, they must also keep going back to school. I often wonder if a lot of the behavior problems of some children aren't contributed from having so much thrown at them at such a young age and the push to be a high achiever by some parents and other parents that take no interest what so ever in what their child is doing as long as they stay out of their way. Was Dr. Spock a good teacher at how to discipline your child? When I was raising my girls, I thought his book was just great, for applying "to their butt's". NO, I did not beat my children, but they knew what a spanking was and they aren't "warped" from it.
Back to the Postal Service part of this discussion..I'm glad I went to work and had all day to calm down about this before I wrote something this morning...Billy--The USPS operates on income from the sale of postage, NOT on the backs of taxpayers....
Since its reorganization in to an independent organization, the USPS has become self-sufficient and has not received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s. The decline of mail volume due to increased usage of e-mail has forced the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to maintain this financial balance.
Prefunding retirement and declining mail volume are the reason that the USPS is in the mess it's in. We aren't up there begging for a handout; we are asking that we be allowed to stop prefunding retirement since no one else has to.
Diane, there are laws in place covering "time out" rooms. The room that was dipicted in that youtube piece was in clear violation of the law. As for special ed kids go, no, they should not be included in regualr classrooms. Yes, they can be a handful, but that is part of a teachers job. Locking these children in a cell and basically forgetting about them is not helping the child.
Varmit why do you think kids who go to decompression rooms are "forgotten about" by the teachers? These kids are not your usual special ed kids, who often can be mainstreamed into regular classes for part of the day. The really hard core cases are clearly emotionally and mentally disturbed. Some are autistic of one form or another, some are other things. Some have a whole bucket of physical problems that go along with it. Some, as they mature, begin expressing sexually deviant behaviors. They don't easily understand "rules" and right from wrong. Some of the rooms are equipped with flush mounted cameras or shatter proof two way mirrors. I have another friend who is an aide for some middle school age autistic kids. They come see me at the fire house every year. They aren't violent or we couldn't do it. I have no problem working with them. But some groups even I won't work with. They are just too much and corporal punishment is used with them, sort of a tough love thing. I don't have the training to work with them and I have the greatest respect for those who do. You can't possibly know anything about it unless you have a family member who fits the category.
Diane, didn't you see the part of that video that explained that there was a sheet covering the only window into that room?
The sheet doesn't bother me, it could be lifted to check on the child, who was probably screaming his head off. I don't understand the x on the floor bit, but I wasn't there. I can't speak about this case of course, but usually in ODD cases, the parents meet with the school on a regular basis and the parents sign an agreement as to what kind of behavior modification method can be used and in what case. The school may have been totally wrong, but, like Cat, I'd have to know a lot more. Nobody can just generalize with something like that.
Whose generalizing? That child was put in a room, in his underwear, unobserved and told to stand on an "X" on the floor. The law states that a child in a "time out" room has to be observed constantly, not just checked on from time to time. His mother said that she was in contact with the school on a daily basis and did not agree with this type of treatment for her child.
So the answer is to throw them all in Jail? How about investigating to see what happened? I thought that's why the report was filed. I didn't know you had personal knowledge of that case.
Billy, I don't understand what your discussion has to do with the topic? Do you think government employees should be stripped of their rights as granted by the constitution? do you support red's insane argument?
Diane, whats to investigate? That child was striped down to his underwear and placed in that room unobserved. That is a clear violation of the law, so yes, through those responsible in jail.
Anmar, the topic, like many other threads, has switched focus. As for state workers being stripped of their constitutional rights, the line the article that you are referencing was meant as sarcasm. The author wasn't serious.
As for it being reds argument, it was not. Red has made two posts in this thread, one was the article itself, the other was in regards to public education.
Quote from: redcliffsw on September 26, 2009, 07:19:15 AM
"it's indoctrinators."
There's been news on this forum regarding the possibility
of building a new public school in West Elk. Don't know
why would anyone would want to continue to support
a public school system? It would be easy to vote "no"
on that.
Let me educate you:
There is no possibility of building a new school. We already have a fine school. A great school compared to any area school. Our test scores are better with less funding and we have no debt. We are putting education in front of local politics. We are trying to maintain a great school system by building an efficient campus. We are dealing with what we have been handed (lower enrollment district wide, lower county assessment, and budget shortages from state funding) to keep our educational standards higher than surrounding schools. It might not be as easy but would be much better for the education of the students to vote "yes".
Maybe I'm a little dense today, but what does the building have to due with what is being taught inside it? If the teachers are as good as you say they are then they should be able to teach just as well inside a quansant hut.
We are spending over a half a million dollars a year on maintenance, repairs, busing, redundant staff, etc...
Picture our current grade school classrooms as similar to a cattle truck packed full of 20-31 kids. Now remember we are losing state aid every year and for the next few years that funding stream will be stretched even thinner. That means less staff, ie paras to assist the teachers. So you have students packed in to small classrooms designed for teaching in the sixties trying to effectively use white boards and interactive computer based programs. Most rooms have the required one receptacle but it is not on both ends of the class room.
Wouldn't it make more sense to put those same students in a large well lit efficiently heated and cooled environment with abundant natural light. The better the environment for learning the easier and faster the students learn.
We currently do not see a funding stream available to maintain what we currently offer and that is not acceptable. We should be spending money on new programs, better 21st century learning programs, multiple foreign language, vo-tech instruction, real life job skills, conflict resolution, and debate....
It is a question of what you are willing to give up. If we don't try to save money by lowering operating cost then we have to start elimination of programs.
My education came from a public school system. I even learned the difference between "due" and "do" and "throw" and "through" (all though I'm at a loss as to how those two words are related). We were taught to capitalize names and use punctuation such as "Red's" instead of "reds", etc.
pep, start your own thread. This is like spamming! ;)
Thanks, Flo, I promised I wouldn't say anything about spelling anymore. I don't think some of them even try. I don't know why they seem so proud of it. I don't mean typos either, everyone does that from time to time.That's really an insult to some teacher somewhere who tried to teach" then and than", and correct apostrophe usage and so on. Even as adults some absolutely refuse to learn what they didn't learn earlier. Why? And they criticize the teachers in today's schools? No wonder other countries are supposed to be ahead of us. Even our adults refuse to learn anything new or fill in their own weak spots. I really don't get it. (Oink,Oink)
8) 8) Diane, you are very welcome. :angel: Someone said in their post something about why would be want to support public schools. Did you notice I merely made a statement about getting my education in a public school. The english language has many words that sound alike, but are spelled different and have completely different meanings. They taught us the difference in the "public school" I went to. Guess maybe in some private schools they don't teach that??? ( Uh Hummmmmm) ;D ;D, get my drift, sir?
I try not to make typos and always got As in English. Ever think that some of these people on here are just so sick and tired of seeing people bitch and gripe about spelling and grammar that they do most of it on purpose? That would truly be my guess but what would I know.
It's a political thread for cripe's sake, NOT a spelling bee or graded English exam.
I absolutely DID NOT say a thing in my post about mispelled words. I was merely making a comment about another post as to why anyone would want to support a public school. :angel:
Quote from: flo on September 29, 2009, 08:42:38 AM
My education came from a public school system. I even learned the difference between "due" and "do" and "throw" and "through" (all though I'm at a loss as to how those two words are related). We were taught to capitalize names and use punctuation such as "Red's" instead of "reds", etc.
Nope, you didn't say anything about misspelled words (and hey, you MISSPELLED misspelled in your reply) but you did take the word RED from Billy's post and make a point about it. That falls under the grammar I was speaking of.
NOW it has become a spelling thing. Shame on me, I'll take my 10 lashes with a wet noodle and shut up. :-X
Just thought if other people could make big deals out of nothing that I could too. Oh well hell, not the first bad thing I've done today and I'm sure it won't be the last...Boys, the forums all yours again until I feel the need to get mouthy again....
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 29, 2009, 12:38:18 PM
Thanks, Flo, I promised I wouldn't say anything about spelling anymore. I don't think some of them even try. I don't know why they seem so proud of it. I don't mean typos either, everyone does that from time to time.That's really an insult to some teacher somewhere who tried to teach" then and than", and correct apostrophe usage and so on. Even as adults some absolutely refuse to learn what they didn't learn earlier. Why? And they criticize the teachers in today's schools? No wonder other countries are supposed to be ahead of us. Even our adults refuse to learn anything new or fill in their own weak spots. I really don't get it. (Oink,Oink)
You know, that is so true. For instance when I was in school I had to take a typing class where we learned things like finger placement, margins, spacing, things like that. And in this day and age it floors me that adults, espcially teachers, cannot type correctly. I tell ya, its a damn shame. I am sure that there is a typing teacher somewhere just bawling her eyes out.
Teachers are a really weird group of people. I had some that were spelling and grammar freaks, others that didn't give a hoot so long as they were able to get the meaning of what you were trying to say. I had one that was fond of saying, "To hell with the messenger and its delievery, did you get the fu@#$^* message?" He was my favorite.
QuoteI was merely making a comment about another post as to why anyone would want to support a public school.
I've discovered abstract examples don't fly too well Ma :P
Why Varmit, you sly devil you !!! Did I see sarcasm in that typing teacher thing ?? Now be a good boy and just be a ----what was the term ?? ---oh yea---a " pimple minded person" and quit acting like you are an educated person. You live in Elk county you know. :)
What is the matter with you people? On the one hand you say our education system stinks and then you say that anything that can be understood should be acceptable. OK, so 2+2 =5 gets an A because it's "close enough?" I'll tell ya who complains about the poor grammar and spelling. Employers! You won't get a job in many of our big industries, (beyond entry level), around here, with poor grammar and spelling. Especially now that there are no longer any secretarial pools to catch the boss's errors. ;D You want the new school built by someone who is happy with "good enough?" If your accepted window cut sheet specifies a xxx- 223 window, and the builder installs a lower quality xx-233, that's OK because it's close enough? Don't you want what you paid for? Yes, it is true that some people, who are good readers, can manage, with hard work, to figure out what a poor speller is trying to say, but poor readers cannot read other people's poor spelling a bit well. Shouldn't we all be trying to be better? Do you want to sit down with a "good" book and have it full of errors? I hope you expect more from your Doctor and Pharmacist than "good enough."
I've told you all many times, you can pick at my typing all you want. I never had a keyboard or typing class. My errors are fewer than they were and I've moved from a D to a C. I am , even now, trying to improve. I didn't quit and just accept the status quo. I graduated college in 1966....what computers? I wasn't educated in this "day and age." Varmit. You are half my age!
Varmit....your one teacher who apparently cussed in the classroom, should have known better What was he teaching?
That was in a public school class? Why weren't the parents in a uproar? And he was your hero? figures!
I type weird with my fingers in not the right places.. I took typing.. but my fingers just seemed to want to have a style and placement of their own. ;D So as I do with everything in my life.. I blazed my own trail and I type in my own way in my own fashion.. The words still get there..LOL
Kjell can type faster than the wind with his 2 middle fingers. He doesn't look at the keyboard either.. How he does it I don't know.. I watch him and his 2 fingers just fly all over the keyboard.. weird... but it works for him..
Funny how we all learn the same things in different ways and what teachers seem to click with us and who and why we remember them .. The more teachers acted 'less teacherish".. the more I learned from them. I found that I had to be able to relate to them before I could give them a lot of my attention. I had a college teacher that once a week a group of us would go out and drink a few beers together... He had more of the students attention in class and had no trouble at all in good grades being made becasue I think he was easy to relate to and "human".. and he was a teacher.. but also a freind...
Good combination... :)
You are correct in that everyone remembers certain teachers, both good and bad. I had a fourth grade teacher who I swear had it in for me. I have always had rough looking hands and knuckles. She used to interpret that as dirt and I had to wash my hands many times a day in her class and I can't remember her name. My fifth grade teacher was Mrs. Davis, endeared to me because after school started the world series came on TV (small and black and white) and she was a big baseball fan, so we got to watch the series during her class. I had one teacher who caught me getting revenge on the girl sitting in front of me for stepping on my foot. I stabbed her with the eraser end of a pencil in the back and she ratted me out. Only time I ever got spanked in school. Yeah, they used to do that. In High School, I had a physics teacher, Mr. Thurston, who really believed in me and I loved his class. In college, I had a humanities (psychology) professor who told the class to go buy a lawn chair and sit on a corner. He said we could learn more from watching people than we could in his class. Just come back at the end of the quarter to get our grade. Everyone has their own memories. I did take typing and was very good at it. I still make typos when posting. I use the spell checker and then reread the post several times before posting. Even then, I sometimes have to go back and modify after posting.
So, to use improper English, ain't none of us gonna be perfect!
Larryj
Larry, one of my toughest teachers was your Aunt Emaline. She was strict, no nonsense and kept every kid involved in what was going on.
Yeah, she was tough and smart and terrific and I bet you really learned a lot. If you recall the picture of the four Andrews sisters graduating from school, she was one them. She was the oldest of the Andrews siblings. If I can ever find it, she wrote me a letter after my Mom passed, recalling her memories of the family's life about the time my Mother was born. If I do, I will post it in the "Good old Days" thread with W. Gray's kind permission.
Larryj
Larry that would be great, I knew Buelah, Emaline, Maryellen and Bernadine. Fred and Buelah were really favorites of mine as a boy growing up in howard. I had lots of good visitsd with Fred and he gave me lots of good Philiosphy to grow on. I delivered their paper to.
Don't get me started on memories here.
Aunt Emaline and Uncle Pete lived on a farm southwest of town. I can remember the house fairly clear, and I am sure my cousin will hopefully join in here and post his own memories, but I remember the stairway going to the bedroom upstairs as being incredibly steep. I remember them having a party line phone. I remember my cousins and I taking turns cranking the ice cream maker in the back yard of the house. I remember Uncle Pete sitting on a swing in the yard after dinner and smoking a pipe. I remember them moving to Polk Daniels lake where he was the caretaker. He would take us fishing.
Smoking a pipe reminds me of Uncle Fred. I think I was a little scared of him when I was young. His chair in the living room was next to the front door and he would lay his pipe on the arm of the chair. One day, my cousin and I went running through the front door and my hand accidently hit his pipe and scattered it all over the floor. What a dirty look I got!
Aunt Mary Ellen was the most humorous of them all. Always smiling and always joking around. She and Uncle Buck (Lyman Snodderley) were a great match. They must have kept each other in stitches all the time. When we would go to Howard for a visit, it was grandmother's first and then down the street to Aunt Mary Ellens and over to Aunt Buelahs. Aunt Bernadine, before she was injured, would come into town to see us. Even after she was in a wheelchair someone would bring her to town.
See, I told you---------------Don't get me started.
Larryj
Getting back to the subject at hand, I followed the link to the link to the link, etc. At no point, did I find a source or reference of her information. I don't know of a state or federal employee that doesn't pay some taxes. My wife, my daughter and my son-in-law all work for the state and pay taxes on their income. There are some things like Social Security that they don't pay into, because they have union plans for retirement which eliminates the SS for them. They will not collect SS on retirement. Except in the case of my wife, who was employed elsewhere earlier and paid into the system and will collect a small amount when she retires.
Larryj
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 30, 2009, 09:52:45 AM
What is the matter with you people? On the one hand you say our education system stinks and then you say that anything that can be understood should be acceptable. OK, so 2+2 =5 gets an A because it's "close enough?" I'll tell ya who complains about the poor grammar and spelling...
Varmit....your one teacher who apparently cussed in the classroom, should have known better What was he teaching?
That was in a public school class? Why weren't the parents in a uproar? And he was your hero? figures!
Whats the matter with YOU, Diane? Ya'll get upset because someone doesn't capitalize a name or place or whatever, and then bite their head off like they are the most evil people on the planet. Then when those same people make a comment about your typing or whatever you get offended.
My "one teacher" was teaching American History. Yes it was in a public school (hence the lower standard of teacher behavior). The parents weren't in an uproar because half of them didn't know about it, the other half agreed with him. I never said he was my "hero", I said he was my favorite teacher. Get your facts straight.
Believe me you have never seen me up set...not even close. I have never complained about anyone correcting my typing.That is incorrect and you know it. I have made my case about that many times. I don't care who corrects my typing...get that straight. As I started to say and I don't know why it isn't in my post, it's the employers who howl about incorrect spelling and grammar. You don't have a prayer around here of getting and keeping a good job with poor grammar and poor spelling. I don't ever recall going off about misuse of capitals and I haven't tasted "head" in years. You are extremely good at exaggerating anything I say about anything, so have at it. You are holding me responsible for things others have said, but if that suits your purpose, have at it. Accuracy isn't your strong point. Besides why do you care? I'm not out there.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on October 02, 2009, 05:58:46 PM
and I haven't tasted "head" in years.
Um, i'm just a dumb Hillbilly from Kansas soooo, I don't understand this comment...Please enlighten me... :o
Mrs. Hillbilly
Quote from: Diane Amberg on October 02, 2009, 05:58:46 PM
Believe me you have never seen me up set...not even close. I have never complained about anyone correcting my typing.That is incorrect and you know it. I have made my case about that many times. I don't care who corrects my typing...get that straight.
I did get that straight, I said you got offended, I didn't say you complained.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on October 02, 2009, 05:58:46 PM
I don't ever recall going off about misuse of capitals and I haven't tasted "head" in years. You are extremely good at exaggerating anything I say about anything, so have at it. You are holding me responsible for things others have said, but if that suits your purpose, have at it. Accuracy isn't your strong point.
You're right Diane, you didn't go off about capitalization, that was Flo. You took it to a another level and expanded on it.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 29, 2009, 12:38:18 PM
Thanks, Flo, I promised I wouldn't say anything about spelling anymore. I don't think some of them even try. I don't know why they seem so proud of it. I don't mean typos either, everyone does that from time to time.That's really an insult to some teacher somewhere who tried to teach" then and than", and correct apostrophe usage and so on. Even as adults some absolutely refuse to learn what they didn't learn earlier. Why? And they criticize the teachers in today's schools? No wonder other countries are supposed to be ahead of us. Even our adults refuse to learn anything new or fill in their own weak spots. I really don't get it. (Oink,Oink)
...and I am the one that gets accused of being inaccurate..
I am not, have not, nor would I be offended at comments about my poor typing. Like I have said many times before, you would be right, it's bad, have at it. Really, is that all you've got? As for the other, I wasn't inaccurate, every word was true. If you thought I meant you that's your problem. I mentioned no names and I can think of several whose spelling and grammar is much worse.
Mrs. KS, Varmit accused me of biting someones head off. I said I haven't tasted head in years, as I haven't knowingly bitten off any heads....It was a joke that was apparently lost on you.
Right back at ya! ;)