Red pens unite!



You may well have seen this already on social media, but I'd like to add a style note to the already copious amounts of edits suggested by Harvard. The use of adjectives in this letter is embarrassing: "fabulous" and so on are inconsistent with an official letter of so-called reprimand. There are also unsupported claims and a whole lot of bluster. The series of questions come off as hysteria-- this is not a professionally-written letter, and it eminently laughable. This would not even make a good letter to the local paper.

This woman is the Sec. of Ed. (I won't spell it all out-- she doesn't deserve that.) 

Have a wonderful day.

C

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