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Bxgrl – do you mean Miss Muffet or Montrose Morris?
Hey kens, i agree with you about making fun of students who are not native born English speakers, as I’m sure their English is much better then my (insert other language here)
I didn’t really get the impression that’s what were were making fun of when reading sixyear’s essay examples. they just sounded like the essays of kids who didn’t know the material, and were trying to creatively fill up the page.
sure, immigrant students may have trouble with sentence structure or proper grammar (as rules in English apparently don’t make much sense) – but you can tell if they know the material. I didn’t get that impression from sixyear’s essays
Sixyears – how are US History essays evaluated? is it purely content or is spelling, grammar et all taken into account as well?
hmmm…. DH- so how do you feel about father knows best and leave it to beaver? 😉
on another note, I hope benson comes tonight. Hopefully his fight with MM won’t stop him although he threatened to stop posting.
Who the hell picked this place? It’s in the middle of freakin’ nowhere! 🙂
Rob – That’s actually closer than I am. 4th to Flatbush, dogleg onto Hanson, walk to Vanderbilt (Hanson turns into
Greene Av), turn right at Myrtle. It’s a little under a mile.
BTW Assheads suck it down! Plus set up the next Brownstoner party at the Outpost Nov ’09!
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Yeah Harlem Dumbasses! The next Hipster haven!
The What (No I’m not coming)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Can I come into defense of these students…I graduated the same school that sixyears teaches in and when I did (before he started working there) it was full of immigrant students. I was only in America for 3 years when I started high school so cut these people some slack. I took the regents and even though I don’t remember what I wrote, it is a good possibility that it would be along those lines. I was always getting perfect scores in math though, including AP exams and regents.
Rob – unfortunately the closest stop on the R is the Dekalb stop, from there it’s about a 15 minute walk (that’s what I’ll be doing)
Rob – That’s only about 4 blocks more than I have to go – easiest way I found was to walk.