An error-filled letter from a Virginia teachers union president calling for increased protections against the coronavirus was mocked relentlessly on Twitter after an appalled parent took a correction pen to the piece and posted the revised version online.
“Hey @VEA4Kids! Are you going to continue sending out these grammar worksheets during the break?” Ellen Gallery, parent wrote the following Thursday morning in a blog post. It featured Ingrid Grant’s heavily-marked-up Arlington Education Association document.
“My kids had fun finding errors with me!” Are we able to find all of them? “Did we find them all?” mused the mother.
Gallery, who describes herself as a home-schooling mom, marked up roughly 20 grammatical errors highlighted in green pen in a letter Grant sent to Arlington Schools Superintendent Dr. Francisco Duran to increase the amount of on-site COVID tests for schools in the Virginia district.
This letter had only five paragraphs.
This error-riddled letter from the Arlington Education Association calling for increased coronavirus protection for public school students was mocked relentlessly on Twitter Thursday after an appalled parent edited the piece and posted a revised version online
Despite only being five paragraphs long, the missive, penned by Arlington Education Association president Ingrid Grant, contained approximately 20 errors, highlighted by the edits made in green pen
It was written to discuss the spread of coronavirus in the context of Omicron’s surging variant. The letter also requested a delay of January classes to deal with the problem, while school testing capability is improved.
Ellen Gallery, Arlington parent, posted her modified version of Thursday’s union piece on Thursday
According to the CDC Virginia was one 15-state state that had a record high number of infections per day.
The agency reported that the state had 7,439 COVID-19 new cases and 185 deaths from COVID-19 on December 28th, 2021.
Arlington, in particular, is well-known as a hot spot. As of December 28th, Arlington saw an average of 163 cases every week.
Grant continues her argument in her letter with extraneous punctuation as well as incoherent sentences. Grant also argues that the students being allowed to have lunch indoors is a way to combat the virus.
Grants says that Omicron cases are making it more difficult for teachers to teach, so Duran was urged to slow down the return of Arlington students to school.
Grant continues to argue in her letter that the Omicron variant’s surging surge by permitting students to have lunch indoors is an’super-preader’.
Virginia’s public schools are about to start classes on August 1st. According to the CDC, 15 states had a record number of daily average infections. Virginia was one of these.
However, her command of English in the piece left much to be desired. Gallery Completely rewrite the opening sentence of your letter.
“On behalf of Arlington Education Association members, this grave expression lends great concern for Arlington Public Schools’ return plans for January 3, 2022,” the original letter opened.
Grant continues to use the wrong word “are” instead of “our”, in his awkwardly-written piece.
She said that the fire services in her region were exemplifying Omicron outbreaks, in reference to Omicron populations in excess in the Old Dominion.
Gallery laughed at Gallery’s gaffe and said: “My children couldn’t make small enough corrections to this letter, but we had some fun and made this,” referring to her amended version.
“I had just taught my 6 year old about homophones and the were/our error really cracked him up.
There were a number of obvious linguistic mistakes in the letter, such as using the term ‘are’ rather than ‘our’.
A Twitter grammarian quickly took a shot at Grant’s use of punctuation
Twitter was quick in its reaction to the badly written missive.
“Apparently learning loss is not just limited to students! A user responded to the posting, garnering hundreds of likes.
One wrote, “Adding an unneeded colon in senior-year high school English was a complete letter grade deduction.” They did not succeed.
A DailyMail.com analysis of John Hopkins data revealed that the U.S. reached a new peak for daily COVID reports, with 512.533 reported cases, surpassing its prior record of 489.267.
U.S. now averages 300,387 new COVID patients per day. It is a historic pandemic record that marks America’s first ever 300,000.
Deaths have fallen by five percentage points to a daily average 1,221. However, a grim CDC forecast predicts more than 42,000 Americans would die over the next three weeks. According to the New York Times Hospitalizations are increasing by 15 percent with a daily average 78,781 each day.
It is evident that Omicron cases are less severe than Delta, and there are more mild cases.
Because of an increase in home testing, some cases might not be included in the official count. What’s more worrisome about the high numbers is that health experts often expect disturbances in testing and data reporting, the news outlet reported.
According to the New York Times, approximately 62 per cent of Americans are fully vaccinated. 73 per cent have already received their first vaccine. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 68.8 millions of those who have been fully vaccinated received their third dose or booster shot since August 13.
According to DailyMail.com, the US set a new world record in average daily COVID case reports with 512 533, which was reported by John Hopkins on Thursday.