Actual grammar and spelling mistakes submitted by teachers:
"I felt as if I had been thrown into a room of hungry loins."
I've definitely felt that way before.
"She had ankles like peach-pits and lips as big as a twelve-year-old girl."
Um, wow. I can't decide which simile is more disturbing.
"You always new when he come in the room because of the smell of his strange colon."
Thought nobody could smell your colon? Think again.
"He took her for granite."
No woman wants to be taken for granite. Maybe for some marble slab ice cream, but certainly not for granite.
"He slipped into a comma and died."
Watch out - those commas can be pretty darn dangerous.
"Ernest Hemingway was a really, really, good righter. He was so good that he won the pull it surprise for his book The Old Man and The Sea." -from a NINTH grader's essay
Just shoot me now. America, really? "Pull it surprise" instead of Pulitzer Prize?? Have we really sunk that low?
Apparently so, because here's a gem from President George W. Bush:
"The public education system in America is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it is where children from all over America learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society."
p.s. Go here and laugh.
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I have to admit that I couldn't even pronounce some of the words from the spelling bee while reading Little Town on the Prairie to Phoebe - and the teacher's exam...oh my word! They really educated those children back then!
this is positively pathetic! sad, just sad.
the H
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