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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 6:55 AM
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Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on The Answer to the Puzzle.

This entry below sent to all board and administration members. lee

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Answer to the Puzzle":

To the Alafia parent: this is probably why Elia won't get rid of that principal. They probably know each other well, and Elia probably coached her how to be. So she can't fire someone who followed her directions and advice about being a principal. There is a culture of sadism at the ROSSAC building. They all fled the classroom, because they could not handle the students, and they sit in their ivory tower telling teachers how to teach, when they couldn't hack it themselves, and they stab each other in the backs. It must be worse than hell to work in the ROSSAC building.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 3:54 AM I still marvel that the board not only named Elia as superintendent but spent $35,000 tax money in an ad nationwide for the job to bamboozle people about the board’s “objective” selection. Ms. Elia had a negative reputation for being mean-spirited during the time she climbed the ladder to superintendency. The board must have known this fact. Maybe its members chose her because they thought being an arrogant jerk was leadership.

April Griffin was not on the board when six board members chose Elia. So she gets a pass. But Susan Valdes was. I had supported April and Susan when they ran. Both have dismayed me. Susan blew $50,000 tax money on board “business” travel when thousands of poor children in the county can’t afford the materials to participate in class; now April is making scenes on the podium to get an exemption from the new rules for board expenses for travel that its members came up with after the newspapers outed their travel extravagance.

There are not scenes on the podium about Ms. Elia’s inventing two jobs for Dr. James Can’t-Tell-the-Difference-Between-“Your”-and-“You’re” Hamilton. But there are scenes when a spoiled board ditz wants more toys than the rules allow.

Voters have elected a group that is not grown-up enough for the job and that use board position to preen each’s soi-disant importance. The minute they walk through the ROSSAC door to La La Land, they give up any intention of serving the community by running the schools in a way that benefits it, especially the its student children. lee

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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:32 AM
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Answer to the Puzzle":

I know you're upset that Smiley mauls the language, but be consistent. Tell Thomas Vaughan to use some apostrophes now an then.

[A mullet hair do and now cursing: this is too much to bear. lee]

Oh, and a complete sentence precedes a colon. Review your grammar primer.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 1:32 AM

Dear reader: I make it a point not to correct the grammar of teachers under attack for their jobs. They are probably so rattled that they wouldn’t recognize their own mother if she turned up. The prospect of losing your job fries people’s synapses.

We don’t correct people’s grammar and punctuation when they are on the mat. If you are interested in my grammar and punctuation battles, those appear on Grammargrinch.blogspot.com.

A complete sentence usually precedes the colon; but it can follow a phrase or even word summary. Examples: The fight for justice: that was his goal. Justice: that was his goal.

I am sure this message with your rebuke on Thomas’s apostrophes will make him more careful with them.

Let’s move on to dangling participles and subject-verb agreement. We will climb the grammar ladder to the top with every flavor of error that the English language suffers in the hands of us humans. This is my corner of expertise. Everybody needs to be a master of something. I chose language. I will enter the ring with anybody in that area that I have spent my life studying.

Thanks for proofreading; you are bound to catch me sooner or later in something when I nod off. Language is the most complex code that the human race has evolved. Computer codes are Romper Room compared to the languages of the world. lee

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Anothere Teacher Crucifixion in the Erwin Traditio...":

Lee,
You were my English teacher at H.C.C. You were passionate and taught with gusto! I learned alot from you. Especially, in the area of vocabulary which you enhanced. Thank YOU.
I am not perfect but I do proof read . Goader, bless his heart, is Steve Kemp not Kent.
Did you have "Superman" on your mind? If you did, then Clark Kent is your man.
Thanks for sticking up for us and going the extra mile. You are one maybe two reasons, I became a teacher. Even though its just Kindergarten.
Take Care, Commasplice Queen

Wonderful to hear from you. Love, Lee



Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 3:56 PM