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A retired high school English teacher says a letter she received from President Trump would have barely earned passing marks, so she corrected the letter and sent it back to the White House.
Yvonne Mason, an Atlanta resident who retired this year after teaching middle and high school students in South Carolina for 17 years, corrected grammatical mistakes in the letter bearing Trump's signature, including 11 instances of improper capitalization of words like "president" and "state."
"If it had been written in middle school, I'd give it a C or C-plus," Mason told South Carolina's Greenville News. "If it had been written in high school, I'd give it a D."
She did not attach a letter grade in the letter she sent back to the White House.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/389517-retired-english-teacher-corrects-letter-from-trump-and-sends-it-back
dweller
(23,610 posts)rickford66
(5,521 posts)Where did the photo of the letter come from. Can we see a better copy ?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Literally the first five seconds of the video at the link show the letter.
rickford66
(5,521 posts)The video wasn't there when I first opened the link. The second time I saw the video.
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,849 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Now where is that birth certificate Mr. Jowly?
grumpyduck
(6,221 posts)"The teacher said the White House response did not address her request specifically."
For me, this is the most insulting part of getting a response back from an elected official. It says "you're not worth a real response, and, besides, I think you're too f*ing stupid to notice I sent you a form letter instead of a response."
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)They struggle to obtain Masters and Doctorate Degrees to advance their career. The burden of debt is....
Do we want the best for our children, or are we willing to settle for the private school model?
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)It is a tremendous letter. Everybody knows. People are saying it's right up there with the Gettysburg Address. The language is of the highest level. Obviously written by a someone with a keen intellect; probably the product of a top private school education. This letter should be framed and placed in every classroom. Tremendous, just tremendous!
"John Miller"
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)She'll have to do the same with trump's letter to Kim also. (Whether trump actually wrote this letter or not) Tillerson was right...he IS a moron.