Letters, we get letters:
HELLO MY NAME IS [omitted]. I HAD TO REPLY TO YOUR WRIGHT UP IN THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS. I WANTED TO SUGGEST THAT THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN STOP OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS FROM SUFFERING SANCTIONS, DUE TO WEAK ENGLISH STUDENTS, IS TO STOP TRYING TO BE SO POLITICALY CORRECT. I DO NOT KNOW FOR A FACT, BUT I AM WILLING TO BET THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF THE LIMTED ENGLISH STUDENTS CAME HERE ILLEGALLY, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. AND UNTILL WE STOP REWARDING PEOPLE FOR BREAKING THE LAW, OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL FALTER. THANK YOU [name omitted]
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05 February | 11:21 | anna
it's hard to take someone seriously who a) writes in all caps and b) doesn't even understand basic grammatical rules.
sheesh.
05 February | 11:41 | Jefe
Geezus. What a dolt.
05 February | 12:23 | Chuck
Presumably this was written by a native speaker ... sheesh.
05 February | 14:19 | EricaLucci
Oh the crap you get to deal with!
05 February | 18:14 | dan
was he for real? ..
i hope not.. ouch.
05 February | 22:05 | Maud
Oy. I'm wondering whether you respond to messages like this.
06 February | 1:09 | Charles
Wow . . . nice! Racist, misinformed, ignorant, and uneducated all in one!
06 February | 10:21 | Brad
The key phrase here is "I do not know for a fact..." I hate to pick on people but some times they get what they deserve. I am not being politcaly (sic) correct, either. Good work JB....
07 February | 21:14 | Miss Shafer
That's about as fun as the "patition" one of my students submitted to the vice principal to show that "Mrs. (sic) Shaffer (sic) gives too much work."
The moral must be that I need to give more spelling tests!
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