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Boston Globe columnist, Derrick Z. (is for "idiot") Jackson, gets taken down a notch by the seventh-grade writer of this letter to the editor.
When you're columns are getting bitch-slapped by 13-year-olds, it might be time to hang up the pen.
And NOT a product of our over-bloated, union-run public education system here in Massachusetts? I'm shocked.
But the fun doesn't stop there. In this letter to the editor from today's Boston Globe, Brendan O'Brien from Haverhill takes Mr. Jackson to task over another recent column of his.
Good stuff.
If my next house has a woodshed in the backyard, I'm thinking I'll to rename it the "Derrick Z. Jackson Memorial Woodshed". He spends so much time there, he really should at least have a small plaque on the wall.
Boston Globe columnist, Derrick Z. (is for "idiot") Jackson, gets taken down a notch by the seventh-grade writer of this letter to the editor.
DERRICK JACKSON seems to think that President Bush's proposed cuts to physical education will exacerbate the obesity crisis even more ("The crumbling pyramid," op ed, April 27).
Even supposing that federal funding was not cut, does Jackson believe that fully funded phys ed would encourage obese students to abandon their sedentary habits? After school, students watch three hours of television and eat fatty foods. It hardly matters whether our physical education programs are fully funded. The solution lies elsewhere.
ARMANDO GIRALDO
New Bedford
When you're columns are getting bitch-slapped by 13-year-olds, it might be time to hang up the pen.
The writer is a seventh-grade student at Nativity Preparatory School.
And NOT a product of our over-bloated, union-run public education system here in Massachusetts? I'm shocked.
But the fun doesn't stop there. In this letter to the editor from today's Boston Globe, Brendan O'Brien from Haverhill takes Mr. Jackson to task over another recent column of his.
IT WAS, as always, a pleasure to pick up the op-ed page and be lectured (this time in a Derrick Jackson column) about how Americans are uncurious and ignorant about the world ("The insular American," April 29).
Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, whom Jackson interviewed, feels that Americans are so behind in their knowledge that they'd better start with something as basic as geography -- understanding, for example, "why Eskimos live in igloos."
Soyinka might be surprised to hear that Eskimos don't live in igloos but use them as hunting lodges. The rest of us might wonder how Soyinka became so certain of the ignorance of others.
BRENDAN O'BRIEN
Haverhill
Good stuff.
If my next house has a woodshed in the backyard, I'm thinking I'll to rename it the "Derrick Z. Jackson Memorial Woodshed". He spends so much time there, he really should at least have a small plaque on the wall.
