Some punk struck with his graffiti last night. What he wrote on the school walls isn’t important, just a thoughtless series of words; it was the gesture of graffiti that translates as “fuck you.†The spelling, however, was particularly poor, even for thoughtless graffiti, which made me wonder which bothered the faculty more: the gesture or the display of ignorance. I know what Principal Lustig would say, but maybe the English department would feel differently.
Nope. Three out of three English teachers felt that it was the disrespect that mattered—toward them, toward the school, toward education as an institution. Bad spelling can be corrected. A bad attitude? If we knew how to correct that, it’d be worth a Nobel Prize, at least.
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