10/21/2009

Shaping our future

One of my patients came in today, 13 minutes late...but who's counting? I asked her if she was coming from work and she said she was. I asked what she did.
Her: "I'm a middle school teacher."
Me: "Oh. What do you teach?"
Her: "Music"
Me: "Oh. That's nice. Where do you teach at?"
Her: "Johns Island and West Ashley"
Me: "Oh. Do you go to one school a couple days and the other the other days?"
Her: "No. I be at Johns Island in the morning. I be at West Ashley in the afternoons."
Me: "Oh...at least you don't teach English" (ok...thought that last part to myself)

Question: Who be hiring these teachers with bad grammar? Want to know what's even worse about the situation? She has her masters! Didn't she have to be writing papers in school?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least she don't be ending sentences with prepositions.

K said...

Not sure if I ended a sentence in a preposition or not because I really don't even remember what a preposition is BUT I'M NOT A TEACHER!

Anonymous said...

You said "Where do you teach at?"

'at' is a preposition, and that is something one should not end a sentence with.

Or, it is not something with which one should end a sentence.