Apparently, some NFLers aren’t smarter than second graders.
This past week, a second-grade class from Elmwood Franklin Elementary in Buffalo, N.Y. sharpened their grammatical knowledge by correcting tweets from three players: 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver, Lions receiver Titus Young, and Patriots receiver Wes Welker.
They shared the results on their Facebook page, along with the following description:
Second graders are serious fans of football—and grammar! Elmwood Franklin School’s second grade students applied their lessons in proper sentence structure, noun and verb usage, spelling, and punctuation to correct the tweets of professional football players. The students partnered in groups and together found several mistakes in these tweets, including the incorrect spelling of “a lot.”
Oh RT @cullyinthehouse: I pray to God I’m never dieing broke
— Dike Lowery(@cheyeeeeee) January 30, 2013
It’s true I could be alot better, But wit the football
— Titus D Young Sr (@TitusDYoungSr) January 22, 2013
Merry Christmas to everyone. My God bless you all!
— Wes Welker (@WesWelker) December 25, 2012
Culliver’s original tweet has since been deleted. It has not been a good week for the 24-year-old, who made waves with his anti-gay remarks. Young can’t seem to keep his name out of the headlines, so this is no surprise. Welker … well, we’ll chalk it up to the “holiday spirit.”
It’s common knowledge that a vast majority — OK, pretty much all — professional athletes will never become Pulitzer Prize-winning scribes. Kudos to these kids for furthering that perception in a pretty creative way.
[H/T Deadspin]
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This is stupid, they are on Twitter who cares. Also they are football players who’s sports came before grammer.
“This is stupid, they are on Twitter who cares. Also they are football players who’s sports came before grammer.”
This is stupid. They are on Twitter. Who cares? Also, they are football players, whose sports come before grammar.
That is fantastic! Thumbs up.
You might want to brush up on your grammar, spelling, and punctuation too, Fred.
No. Fred is right. It’s dumb. A lot of people make tweets from their phones. A lot of people post on facebook from their phones. It really depends on the phone and how busy someone is. That plays a major role in how easy it is to trim words, abbreviate without punctuation, and make simple typos that have nothing to do with one’s grammar. But please, let’s keep things like this in the news to distract us from real world problems. How about everyone brush up on the credibility of one’s life, and worry about proper grammar on twitter and facebook later. Also, wouldn’t this be considered being a bully? Embarassing people nationally over grammar seems a little harsh.
You against teaching and using various learning tools?
A person who contradicts himself in the same paragraph of his comment, i.e. “But please, let’s keep things like this in the news to distract us from real world problems.” significantly diminshes his credibility. LOL
this is news? everyone knows Pro football players are NOT smarter than a fifth grade
I sure hope Fred isn’t over 15…
This comment thread is the funniest thing I have read in weeks! Thanks Fred! Thanks Kids!
I find this to be pretty stupid. The grammar mistakes of the football players are minor. I honestly don’t even see how this could be considered “news”. Leave it to an elementary school to be a bunch of Grammar Nazis.
Your against using the English language correctly?
Did you catch that one I made purposely? LOL
“Yay!” to the creative use of grammar and a teacher using the world around them as examples. They aren’t being grammar nazis; they are trying to teach them grammar before the context of the world takes it away.
“Boo!” to calling the players out like this. The above post about using a phone keyboard is true; yes, it can cause a little confusion, but if the auto-correct’s self-adjusting or a finger misses or a “Whoa, did you see that?” and a send click and “my” is “may.” While I expect the motivation was to share something the kids were proud of, this is clearly insulting to the “college-educated” athletes. Would they really be better off if all of their tweets were grammatically correct? The article and the Facebook post just come off as pedantic.
This may seem dumb, but I find it to be a great idea for students. As a teacher, I am always giving my students sentences to correct. This is a great idea because the students probably find it exciting to be correcting someone they look up to and admire.