Via Helmet2Helmet:
Apparently, some NFLers aren’t smarter than second graders.
This past week, a second-grade class from Elmwood Franklin Elementary in Buffalo, N.Y. sharpened their grammatical knowledge by correcting tweets from three players: 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver, Lions receiver Titus Young, and Patriots receiver Wes Welker.
They shared the results on their Facebook page, along with the following description:
Second graders are serious fans of football—and grammar! Elmwood Franklin School’s second grade students applied their lessons in proper sentence structure, noun and verb usage, spelling, and punctuation to correct the tweets of professional football players. The students partnered in groups and together found several mistakes in these tweets, including the incorrect spelling of “a lot.”
Culliver’s original tweet has since been deleted. It has not been a good week for the 24-year-old, who made waves with his anti-gay remarks. Young can’t seem to keep his name out of the headlines, so this is no surprise. Welker … well, we’ll chalk it up to the “holiday spirit.”
It’s common knowledge that a vast majority — OK, pretty much all — professional athletes will never become Pulitzer Prize-winning scribes. Kudos to these kids for furthering that perception in a pretty creative way.
[H/T Deadspin]
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February 03, 2013
You can't blame everything on stupidity, or anal octalitis. Keep your heads out of your butt. People are watching. Harp on the bright side.
WTF-why there's focalpoint
Does this teacher not have a clue that when it comes to tweeting and texting, there are no rules, other than to keep it clean. Tweeting and texting is personal, creative shorthand.
Its intention, I thought, was to promote expression, eliminating barriers that semantics can create.
This incident is reminiscent of an attitude from 80 years ago, when, especially minorities were told, "If they couldn't read, they couldn't vote."
"Grammar police" cannot take away or oppress our right to freedom of expression.
I believe this teacher was mistaken. She put a grammar lesson above the ethical lesson of refraining from unnecessary criticism of others. If she had created sentences for the kids to improve upon, that would've been ok.
We never have to put down others to raise up ourselves.
Update: February 02, 2013
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Their model challenges us to communicate without judgment, hostility, sarcasm, comparisons, etc.
It's amazing; it supports development of autonomy and the practice of ethics.
By the way, I appreciate the long suffering of teachers and I couldn't do it.
Please do use both of my responses in your debate class. I believe we are coming from different perspectives.
I expect then, you will have the courage to share, verbatim, your response(s) to me. That is sure to elicit some lively class discussion.
I would've preferred to see the teacher remove the names of the tweets' authors. There's no need to teach at the expense of others.
Tweets and texts are spontaneous, real-time communications from imperfect beings. Do we want these connections with others; or, for lack of tolerance, do we sacrifice them?
Comparing tweets to formal English, is like comparing apples to oranges.
In the pursuit of effective communication, we benefit from embracing all forms: written, spoken, unspoken, formal and informal.
You sound like a complete idiot, how did you come to the conclusion the poster was inbred? I think you should use your reply in your debate class. Are you angry that you still live in your parents basement at forty? And please tell us how attended or unattended has any thing to do with the results of leaving ice cream on the sidewalk?
Good job Kids!
Let's face it this wasn't for a lesson for the kids it was so the teacher could get on national news.