We don t need the ponies, just the patience. W E like to give discredit only where discredit is due. In the October issue , we printed some examples of school administrator gibberish written and circulated by person or persons unknown at the Southeast Junior High School in Guilford County, Virginia. In fact, those unnatural acts were committed not in Virginia but in North Carolina. W E like also to refrain from giving discredit where only little, if any, seems due.
Some writing is bad because it flows from ignorance or inanity or the intent to deceive.
Those things cannot be excused, especially in people who take the taxpayers money for the work of their minds. Some mistakes in writing, however, come from haste or carelessness. They are bad, but we cannot conclude from them alone that the writer is either an ignoramus, a fool, or a scoundrel. Several Glassborovians sent us marked-up copies of a recent AFT bulletin marred by numerous typographical errors. That s bad, but they clearly are typographical errors rather than ignorance.