"Huh?!"

[Skeksin]

Finally a parent taking an interest in their child's education! I predict that this child has great things in store for him in the future. Yale? Harvard? Oxford? Stanford? Dartmouth?

I'm thinking Innsmouth

[chainedbarista]

"You incluseded my sun from his lessoners that just shoes you cannot copping with his beehiviour it not fare that you incluse my sun from his freends sending him away is not the answerer L am not happy with this if L have to L will home skool him.

dear deity, if this isn't a joke...something does need to be done. bleach for the gene pool, in large amounts.

home school him? i...damn. nothing non-fratching like or of fratching related quality will come to mind. unless its a really, really bad joke.

[MoonCat]

Situations like this call for Jester's No-Nonsense Letters of Bluntness, available at a fine weapons dealer near you.

"Dear Sir,

We removed your son from his classes because he's an obnoxious little shit who disrupts the class and makes it impossible for the other students to learn a damn thing. Until he stops being a total dickwad, we will continue to keep him out of his classes. If you have a problem with this, feel free to go fuck yourself.



We look forward to seeing you on Parent-Teacher Day!

Yours truly,

The School."

Most excellent!

[ShadowBall]

Wow...now that is just special. I honestly cannot tell if Daddy here is a complete idiot, he doesn't speak English as a first language, he was in such a blind rage when he wrote this that he couldn't spell, his brat wrote it, or he never learned how to read.

In any case, I hope to gods the kid in question is not home-schooled by this illiterate retard. There are more than enough dumb people in the world, and it's always the dumbest ones who try and home-school their kids. They have no fucking clue what they're doing. Also, wouldn't home-schooling "incluse" Junior from his "freends" too?

I agree - someone needs to step in and do something. Hopefully take the kid away and put him with parents who have a collective IQ higher than that of a mold spore. And if that mess of a letter was written by the brilliant father, can you imagine what it's going to be like speaking to him in person if he writes that badly? Holy shit, he'll probably be lucky if he can grunt and scream.

[Flying Grype]

Oh, I think English is his first language. I've noticed that people who are learning English as a second language mostly spell words right but it's the grammar that gives them away. This guy speaks English but can't spell it. :P

[MadMike]

That looked like something my ex would have written. Both the attitude and the horrible spelling.

You could have fun with him, though. Send him this response:

"Deer sur, you're kuncerns oar impotent to us. Whee will cull you ween whee ellocate sum won who specks you're naiteeve lunguage."

Someone did something like that to my old manager once. He was a nice guy, but couldn't spell worth a damn. I remember getting a memo from him advising me that my performance review was to coming up and to "be prepaired."

One day, another guy on our team sent the manager an email, as a joke, with every single word, including the guy's name spelled wrong, and copied the whole team in on it. He had a sense of humor, so I'm sure he got a laugh out of it.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm not sure which is sadder: The fact that this guy is pretty much illiterate, or the fact that so many people equate illiterate with retarded and stupid.

^-.-^

[EvilEmpryss]

I'm not sure which is sadder: The fact that this guy is pretty much illiterate, or the fact that so many people equate illiterate with retarded and stupid.

I think the annoyance has more to do with the fact that there are very few legitimate medical or psychological conditions that would make one unable to learn to read. Even blindness is not a bar to learning how to spell correctly. Illiteracy is a willful state of existence: one *chooses* to not learn how to communicate via the written word. Add to that the man's inability to use proper grammar and vocabulary and you have the living example of the boy under the Ghost of Christmas Present's cloak: Ignorance.

I don't think anyone here is using the term retarded in its proper psychological usage. Stupid is colloquial enough and certainly seems to fit (though I think rude is better).

[Gravekeeper]

Can anyone translate?

"I drink paint."

[Sparky]

Um...

"I am very angry.

You excluded my son from his lessons. That just shows you cannot cope with his behaviour. It's not fair that you exclude my son from his friends. Sending him away is not the answer. I am not happy with this. If I have to I will homeschool him.

His mum is a sap but I am no sap so don't think I am. You will deal with me from now on.

Beware, I am no pushover."

I like how he uses something resembling "include" when he means something more like "exclude". Regarding those last two lines, I think he means you'll find him tougher to deal with than his wife. Is it a threat? I dunno.

This is a good translation. May I offer a translation for the translation:

I am a blowhard.

You failed to give me everything I want. You are not raising my son for me. I want you to do do my job as a parent. I will threaten to do my own job in an effort to bully you into doing it for me.

I have his mum under my controlling, self-entitled, bullying thumb. Since she does not like to push people around as I do, I am taking over.

Beware, I am an asshat.

[Mytical]

I like Sparky's translation, the other might be more accurate to what he was trying to say..but Sparky's translation is more accurate on what he ended up saying

[Mikkel]

I'm not sure which is sadder: The fact that this guy is pretty much illiterate, or the fact that so many people equate illiterate with retarded and stupid.

^-.-^

I wondered actually if the man has some brain damage. My reason is the big "L"s.
When I learned to type on an oldfashioned typewriter, I was told I could use the "l" instead of "I" to save time. I wonder if the parent has had the same training and somehow has mixed it up with writing on a computer.
The people I have met with brain damage and partial aphasia has been very well aware of their limitations, though. To be brain damaged doesn't equal stupid either. This man is stupid, whatever else is wrong with him.

[Sapphire Silk]

I wondered actually if the man has some brain damage. My reason is the big "L"s.
When I learned to type on an oldfashioned typewriter, I was told I could use the "l" instead of "I" to save time. I wonder if the parent has had the same training and somehow has mixed it up with writing on a computer.
The people I have met with brain damage and partial aphasia has been very well aware of their limitations, though. To be brain damaged doesn't equal stupid either. This man is stupid, whatever else is wrong with him.

If this guy had learned to type in the 1980's I might have bought it. I learned the same thing when I took typing in HS.

But nowadays? Don't buy it.

[Seshat]

Illiteracy is a willful state of existence: one *chooses* to not learn how to communicate via the written word.

My father's parents kept him away from school - he was much more useful to them on the farm.

He put a great deal of effort in as an adult to obtain his high school equivalency, and to learn to write, spell, and read fluently. He hasn't succeeded.

He knows he hasn't. For whatever reason, fluency is something that eludes him. He can read well enough, and his writing communicates efficiently - he can structure written communication very well, and transfer knowledge from his brain into perfectly understandable English....

..... if you can make out his spelling and grammar. Which are atrocious. Internally consistent, but atrocious.

I consider him semi-literate. I also do NOT consider it a decision on his part. Sure, maybe he could have spent more time studying it, but he was the primary income earner for a family of four, at working class/lower class income.

[EvilEmpryss]

Your father is actually the example that proves the point: he worked hard to achieve that level of skill, but likely has an undiagnosed learning disorder (most probably dyslexia). Since learning to read is not something that can only be accomplished in childhood, his difficulty mastering the skill points to some other factor. If he had been allowed to go to school when young, this would likely have been identified and he would have been taught how to work around it. I applaud people like your father for overcoming adversity and pulling himself up to the level he has. He clearly has not *chosen* to be unable to write properly.

It is the ones that have every opportunity placed before them to learn to read who refuse to take advantage of those opportunities that are willfully illiterate.

And on that clarification I'm going to stop so I don't drag this thread into fratching.