# Superintendent Patrick Dubbs of Wayne Local School Ohio is a bully and a coward **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491 "2012-05-29T23:14:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/21 "2012-05-30T15:03:36Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’ve never seen it in 7 years of reviewing legal communications. It doesn’t make sense in this context, anyway. The point of a footnote is to avoid having parenthetical citations take over a page, but when explaining a rule, the reader’s eye has to jump up and down repeatedly in order to determine which case each segment stems from. I think the point is that the main text should make up a readable, complete thought. The purported citations are in the nature of asides. Who checks the citations for each segment before reading the whole thing all the way through? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/22 "2012-05-30T15:23:43Z")
Me? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/23 "2012-05-30T15:29:11Z")
Clearly, you’re doing it wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/24 "2012-05-30T15:38:29Z")
Well, I don’t do that if it’s a direct quote, but IME most legal citations- unless well known in the area of law- either fudge or totally misrepresent the case law being cited. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/25 "2012-05-30T15:54:23Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, I don’t do that if it’s a direct quote, but IME most legal citations- unless well known in the area of law- either fudge or totally misrepresent the case law being cited. Absolutely, but in reading a claim I don’t find it useful to parse out each fragment separately until after I’ve read the whole sentence through. And that’s really the way text should be written – to make sense as a unit. Then you go back and check that each citation supports the portion that it’s tagged to. ---
**Author:** ![mister\_nyx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@mister\_nyx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mister_nyx)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/26 "2012-05-30T22:57:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Ascribing motive is probably not the best of ideas. The principal may or may not be a homophobe. Really? [QUOTE=Ascenray] And he also seems to imply that filing a lawsuit is an unfair tactic. [/QUOTE] Remarkable, isn’t it, how many people think it’s unfair to hold them responsible for their behavior? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491/27 "2012-05-31T04:33:03Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Are you supporting that there’s something in errantly wrong about malapropisms ? That they refry poorly upon one’s perspired intelligence ? That a bannister should watch his language with more circumambulation ? Thank you. That was hysterectomal! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superintendent-patrick-dubbs-of-wayne-local-school-ohio-is-a-bully-and-a-coward/623491.md?page=1)