Freddogg Off The Chain

I was sitting at a high school faculty lunch table. A woman who taught basic communication skills through the English Department was complaining about a student who was in over his head .He was a person to whom the word basic meant advanced placement, a real academic challenge.

The teacher lamented, ”That boy don’t even understand a simple sentence like, ‘The Dog Bark.”

Some years later it was a foreign language teacher. She had brought her young son to work, I know not why. The cafeteria was serving Chinese food that day. This woman, crude by nature, looked at the server and pointed to her fat little son and said, ”He wanna egg roll.”

This person taught English and Spanish and I just shook my head because I can go up and down the slang ladder but I know when I’m doing it and I really wish that so many teachers didn’t sound so ignorant.

I don’t mind it when people misuse language and I would never correct them because that is rude. But teachers at work should sound educated and many don’t because they’re not.

A few months ago I looked at my 10 year old grand daughter Anna and said, ”What’s wrong with this sentence? Where’s the cat at?”

She didn’t even flinch, ”Where the cat?”

How about you? How many languages do you speak? Middle class, working class and no class?

I’m out, yo!

Peace Freddogg