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Detroit dumb: School board president cannot write
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From Mark J. Perry's Carpe Diem blog:

As a follow-up to my National Grammar Day post, here's an article from Laura Berman, a columnist at the Detroit News:

"The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of 90,000 children, in the nation's lowest-achieving big city district. He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence. Here's a sample from an e-mail he sent to friends and supporters on Sunday night, uncorrected for errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation and usage. It begins:"

If you saw Sunday's Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools...

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