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They will never answer, because they have no defense. They are just blatantly doing as they please and to hell with the taxpayers. They will continue this unless more and more people start criticizing them.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 4:28 PM

My dear, do not despair. A granny with ten grandchildren for whom to make the world a place better is on the case. lee

I see below that I misfiled a piece that should have gone into my Grmmargrinch blog. It critiques the grammar and punctuation of the Washington Post and NYT and has a lively readership. I will leave this misfiled piece on Casting-room-couch to remind what skills a good English teacher at HHH and a great Latin teacher there gave me fifty years ago.

Teachers affect eternity: not administrators, not board members but teachers. Teachers must remember this legacy and cast a cold eye on the C-student didoes of ROSSAC and never fear to ream out those clowns that think the universe moves when they tell it to. lee