Is this how you'd want your legislator communicating with your teenager? In an email response to a sophomore high school student Arizona State Senator Linda Gray wrote:
Ana, I have grave concerns on your ability to pass the AIMS language
test. Why didn't you take to time to write an email with the proper
punctuation? By your poorly written email, your example tells me that
all the money we have spent on your education shows a lack of learning
on your part. My son and daughter went through the Glendale UHSD and
had a public school education. My daughter is a 6th grade teacher and
she would be embarrassed if a student in her classroom sent such an
email. You should be ashamed of displaying such ignorance in writing
to a public servant. Perhaps you watch too much TV or don't know how
to speak proper English.
The last line I sure is a reference to the student's hispanic last name. The student, encouraged by her teachers, had merely asked the senator in an email about the budget process for education and why cuts were being made.
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