Australian Education Union (Victorian branch) members today received an email from Branch President Mary Bluett. In the email Mary reiterated the reasons behind the series of four hour rolling stoppages that begin tomorrow and attached a recent letter (PDF) she wrote to education minister Bronwyn Pike, along with Pike’s response (PDF). Remembering that I am a total orthographic Nazi and a teacher, imagine my horror when I saw this in Bluett’s letter.

My retinas!

Firstly, Mary Bluett used to be a teacher so she has no excuse. Secondly, that must surely be somebody between Mary Bluett and the fax machine whose job it is to do a spot of proof reading and prevent that sort of shite ending up on the minister for education’s desk.

Mary Bluett’s school teachers obviously spent too much time forcing her to watch indigenous apologies, debate Australian politics and plant trees.

UPDATE (8:10pm): As Junaman points out in comments there is an error in Bronwyn Pike’s letter that I totally missed.

Bluett - 1, Pike - 1