A retired secondary school English teacher has corrected a letter she received from US president Donald Trump and sent it back to the White House.
Yvonne Mason, who lives in Atlanta and was a teacher for 17 years, said the letter would have barely passed and corrected its numerous grammatical errors.
This included 11 examples of incorrect capitalisation of words such as “president” and “state”.
If it had been written in middle school, I’d give it a C or C-plus. If it had been written in high school, I’d give it a D,” Ms Mason told South Carolina’s Greenville News.
Ms Mason argued the note – which was a reply to a note she had written about the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Florida which left 17 dead – was “stylistically appalling”.
She acknowledged the letter was likely to have been penned by a staff member rather than the president himself.
“When you get letters from the highest level of government, you expect them to be at least mechanically correct,” she said.
Ms Mason said the White House response did not address her request specifically.
In her original letter, she urged Mr Trump to individually meet with the families who lost loved ones at the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
The world leader previously held a listening session with student survivors of mass shootings, their parents and teachers in the State Dining Room at the White House.
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