Letters to the Editor

“The TKO of Washington State House Bill”

To the Editor:

I just read the article by Brooke Pielli, “The TKO of Washington State, House Bill 5802,” in the September/October 2006 issue of the Adjunct Advocate and would like to point out two factual errors in the story:

1. Sandra  Schroeder, current President of AFT Washington, is alive and well.  In the article it identifies her as “The late Sandra Schroeder, then  President of the American Federation of Teachers in the State of Washington . . . .”  We have had people emailing us to ask if she had passed away.

2. Wendy  Rader-Konofalski’s name is misspelled in the article. It’s  Rader-Konofalski not Rader-Konolfski.

Sylvia Watson
AFT Washington, AFL-CIO
14900 Interurban Ave. So., Suite 130
Tukwila, WA 98168

Editor: We apologize for the errors, and thank Ms. Watson for bringing them to our attention.

“Rapscallions, Scoundrels and Scallywags”

To the Editor:

I am writing to tell you how much I enjoyed the interview in the September/October 2006 issue. I have been teaching for five years, and over that time have come to conclude that my students have little grasp of what is appropriate to use from the Internet. Each semester, I go over the rules very carefully, and each semester, I have students who either can not or do not want to understand that copying verbatim from websites is plagiarism. Thanks, again.

John Edwards
New York, NY