[Vision2020] Degeneration of Literacy

Tim Hillebrand chief@synergetics.org
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:11:38 -0800 

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Hmmm...I wonder what school system was responsible for a graduate
penning this sentence containing two egregious errors:=20
It's not just me that's for school choice.
My government school teacher would have been horrified. The correct
redaction of this sentence should be, "It's not just I who is for school
choice.
Viva literacy,

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