ILLITERACY

Kiwiblog published a mindblowingly illiterate statement issued by the staff of Naenae Primary school. Naenae is a low income Lower Hutt suburb. What hope for these kids with teachers lacking basic grammar, let alone common sense?

Their statement, inexplicably, partly in maori, announced the illegal intention to take their classes of children, aged five to ten, to join the Treaty Bill protest.

Grammar abuses.

• “History making” lacking a hyphen.
• “There will be thousands attending therefore, we encourage…”. The comma should be after “attending”, not after “therefore”.
• The next line lacks a comma after “Wellington”.
• “School” is twice spelt “skool”.

Primary school teachers these days, are usually female. I’d offer good odds most of this lot are fat given that obesity frequently accompanies stupidity.

Kiwiblog also published a statement issued to the parents of kids at South Wellington Intermediate school, encouraging them to attend the protest with their children.

This was over the signature of the school principal, a dripping wet to the point of saturation individual called Toby Stokes, who despite his male name, “Toby”, is apparently unsure about his gender. I say that as following his signature he has (he, him, his) in brackets.

Toby is plainly a screaming goose, but possibly a perfect marriage candidate for one of the Naenae primary school fat lady teachers. That said, I suspect there’s no danger of such a matchup producing offspring and thank heavens for that