On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 6:18:01 PM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 4:26:03 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 9:37:42 AM UTC-10, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> > > On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 2:28:45 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 9:50:50 AM UTC-5, John Kuthe wrote:
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> > > > >> On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 9:44:44 AM UTC-5, Pamela wrote:
> > > > >> ...
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> You know John Kuthe in real life?
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> > > > >> We were both taking Freshman English over, we both (and others in that class) taught Mr Gormley (a Business teacher) how to teach Freshman English.
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> > > > >> John Kuthe...
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> > > > > If you knew "how to teach freshman English" how is it you were having to
> > > > > take it over?? Aka failed freshman English.
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> > > > Hahahahaha ... he was a cannabis english teacher!
> > >
> > > We did smoke pot before class pretty much every day. 9th and 10th grade, I smoked pot as soon as I got up, and every few hours. The only time when I was not high on weed was when I was tripping on acid, or on those rare occasions when there wasn't any to be bought anywhere we knew to buy it.
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> > > --Bryan
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> > We was slackers too but you guys were genuine Midwest slackers - the most hardcore of slackers.
> I was never a slacker, just easily bored. One elementary school teacher I has recognizes this on what were called the SRA cards we were supposed to do in order and she asked me why I was not doing them in order and I told her they were boring, so she skipped me way ahead to the harder later ones which were not boring to me.
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My 3rd grade teacher refused to do that for me, even though my reading comprehension tests were always 100%. I could read at college freshman level in 3rd grade, though I was far from being able to write at that level. 6th grade English taught me the fundamentals of grammar, and there is definitely value in learning diagram a sentence. In strict expository writing, paragraphs should be succinct, with leading sentences and closing sentences that draw upon the previous paragraph and set up a transition to the next paragraph, respectively. I used to get paid to tutor those skills, but that was many years and beers ago.
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> John Kuthe...

--Bryan