re: #59 EmmmieG

My most brilliant high school teacher was an English teacher. (We had to wear sun glasses in her glass just to keep from being blinded by her magnificence.)

Nowadays? My aunt, a high school principal, gets resumes with spelling errors. She said she would overlook it if it were for a science position, but it’s for the English teacher positions.

A home school dad I know had a foreign exchange student who obviously was enrolled in the local high school. She brought home an assignment form from her English class which required an adult signature. He signed it, but only after correcting the spelling and grammar mistakes (the school’s mistakes, not hers) with a red pen. The poor girl was embarrassed to take it back like that.

I will never forget an English teacher I had in 8th grade who taught us the difference between ITS and IT’S by reading out loud every student paper and saying IT IS for IT’S.