Too bad. there are a lot of people with absolutely atrocious grammar and diction who nonetheless have true, funny, wise, or even important things to say. Shame to miss it. I admit, wading through a lot of bad prose in hopes of finding a pearl is frustrating and often fruitless, but the price of conversation used to be having to listen to everybody, and I’m a little sad that technology has allowed us to turn our noses up at that.
To get back to the OP, a lot of the problems outlined in this thread could’ve been – NO! EVERYBODY PAY ATTENTION! – could be avoided by not unnecessarily dragging the past tense into things. “I could’ve sworn” = “I could swear,” in most instances in which you haven’t just recently changed your mind.
Hahahaha. Do you mean the legislators who passed these “rules”? Or the courts who adjudicate these “rules”? I’ll suggest that assholes like to walk out of class when they feel that their feelings have been hurt. I’ll also suggest that assholes like to pull fire alarms when they don’t feel they are being given enough attention.
Show me where the teacher kicked these social justice weenies out of class. They walked out under their own power, and under their own volition. The social justice weenies then chose to stand outside the school with a dozen others. After 90 minutes of not getting enough attention, one of these SJW chose to pull a fire alarm. I’d like to think it was all three, it’s the romantic in me. Whoever pulled the fire alarm should go to jail AND lose their driving privilege, as prescribe by NJ law.
Kind of off topic, but I once saw an American tourist utterly lose his shit and try and get some guys fired for talking in ‘Not American’ in his presence. We were in a game lodge in Kenya at the time, and the receptionist had had about a 20 second conversation with someone not wearing a lodge uniform in Swahili, while the aforementioned asshole* was in the room.
I was 15 at the time, but it’s been my standard for self-absorbed arrogance ever since.
*I feel sure he would prefer to be insulted in American English, rather than my usual British English. I’m nice like that.
Yennifer Pinales, 17, says her teacher at Cliffside Park High School lashed out, telling her to practice her English.
So when did the inmates take control of the asylum? Gee Yennifer, don’t practice your English, that will show your teacher.
And what is even more amazing, there are other teenager’s that would rather ditch school for any reason what so ever! Who could ever have seen that coming?
So a handful of teenagers are protesting the tone of their teachers admonition to Yennifer to speak better English. Oh the horror. Such stress on so many ignorant teen’s.
Well the obvious solution is to fire the teacher and hire Yennifer to run the class! I am sure Yennifer has the education and aptitude to deal with the protester’s she inspired. She is 17 after all, she knows everything.
Yennifer speaks both English and Spanish. The teacher wasn’t correcting her English, she was berating her and her friends for speaking Spanish. Where is it written that speaking Spanish was against the rules? The teacher was in the wrong and she was the one with the bad attitude. She ignorantly told the students, “We speak American here.” I’d say the ignorant ones are the ones who can’t see that.
Also, the teen’s what? Plurals don’t get apostrophes. You could learn better English yourself.
It would be nice if this social justice weenie had remembered to have her alleged conversation capture on video. Maybe the beginning and end of the incident had been edited out? It would certainly have helped her credibility. What was captured was three social justice weenies choosing to stand up, while class was in session, and walking out of the classroom. Wouldn’t this be the equivalent of you walking off the job only to hear your boss say, “You’re fired”, to which you reply, “You can’t fire me because I just quit”??? As it is, it appears that the social justice weenies left the classroom acting on their own volition.