School superintendent fails must-pass English test

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LAWRENCE, Massachusetts (AP) -- This city's superintendent of schools, who recently put two dozen teachers on unpaid leave for failing a basic English proficiency test, has himself flunked a required literacy test three times. (http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/08/03/superintendent.test.ap/index.html)

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"What brought me down was the rules of grammar and punctuation," Laboy said. "English being a second language for me, I didn't do well in writing.
No shit, Charlie Comma-Splice.

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I know what this guy is saying. I failed a Math test once and what did me in was all those damn numbers.

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it looks bad for him to fail the test BUT you can argue:

the boss does not always need to know everything his workers need to know. they get caught up and are responsible for much more administartive related duties. they do need to make sure they have the right people in the right positions.

it's very common for employees to criticize their management for not being 'technical" or knowing everything about everything... but it's more often than not an "unfair" way of approaching it...

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"....Pete has no cat feet. Pete has no seal tail...."

" and they ask me why I drink"

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i would laugh but then i remembered the new york state english regents. i wrote an essay about the Cat in the Hat and recieved a 90.

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"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

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I know what some of you are thinking, but just this once I'll let the subject of bad English go without bombarding y'all with choice $elected quotes from our President.

" and they ask me why I drink"

[A.J.]

I know what some of you are thinking, but just this once I'll let the subject of bad English go without bombarding y'all with choice $elected quotes from our President.

Or from various Members of Congress?

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Or from various Members of Congress?


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[high fly]

heh heh heh

" and they ask me why I drink"

[high fly]

Ok, so I'm not gonna shower y'all with the inscrutable mumblings of our Fearless Leader.
But here's a beaut from his Secretary of Education:
Secretary Roderick R. Paige pulled this boner at Randle Highlands Elementary School during a pop quiz.
The quiz was about plural forms of words, and the teacher asked touring D.C. Mayor Williams, school Superintendent Vance and Paige to give the plural form of words. Given the word, "fish", Paige answered : "F-I-S-H" which is fine, but the teacher also wanted "fishes" and said: "Is there another plural for it?"

Paige answered: "There don't have to be. Is there?"

Right there in front of a bunch of fifth graders.
So, get this, --the teacher asks the kids to help.
One kid shouts out "...F-I-S-H-S" which Paige went along with, chiming in.
At least the teacher knew, and asked again, with the same result.
On the fourth try the kids, and Education Secretary Roderick R. Paige got it right.
He tried to cover with one of those "I- knew-but-wanted-to-see-if-you-knew"-type arguments.
This was a couple of months ago and I don't recall seeing the good secretary in public since.
Maybe he's taking a remedial spelling class in summer school.....
The story may be found on page B3 of the June 10th edition of the Washington Post.

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