Kizz
January 25, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Equally confused vs. Equally as confused
Have I asked this already? Have you answered already?
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wayfarerbrian
January 20, 2007 at 3:00 am
You present a viable, workable and appropriate solution to the problem. It keeps your policy consistent, but also allows you the flexibility to help students you feel deserve the support without jeopardizing the evenhandedness of your policy. Whether Joe accepts it or not, I think you did right here.
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Organic Mama
January 18, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I wish I could say that I didn’t have pet peeves when it comes to language and its consistent misuse, but for some reason when people write Insure when they mean Ensure, it sends me barking. Minutiae, no doubt, but it’s one of those things that makes me nuts.
I live with a wonderful man, brilliant doctor, Ph.D, blah blah, who is indifferent to say the least about grammar and spelling conventions. While I suspect he leaves some real pearls in his work to test me when I am asked to “take a look” before he sends it, his haphazard use of apostrophes etc. makes me realize that despite my best efforts in the classroom, and despite the intelligence of some of the students, some kids will never care enough to get the rules down.
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angelfeet
January 10, 2007 at 5:58 pm
OK, I’m newish to your blog, Mrs Chilli, but I thought it only polite to delurk and say hi!
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