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‘Super clap back!’ Retired South Carolina teacher,Yvonne Mason, edits Trump-signed letter full of ‘silly mistakes,’ then sends it back to White House 

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"top" class&equals;"top full-columns">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"fiRZm32Ehq6lSq" class&equals;"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-header" data-pb-name&equals;"Article Header" data-pb-curated&equals;"curated">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card-content align-left">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Yvonne Ma<&sol;strong><strong>son&comma; a retired South Carolina teacher shared in an online posting&comma; a letter she received from the White House that would have failed middle school grading<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The Trump-signed letter was &&num;8220&semi;stylistically appalling&&num;8221&semi; and full of &&num;8216&semi;silly mistakes&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Mason said<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Shed edited the letter then sent it back to The White House <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The White House had responded to her letter of on April 14&comma; sent to the Trump administration about the Parkland school massacre<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<section id&equals;"left" class&equals;"left guttered width-100">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"fcTyr01Ehq6lSq" class&equals;"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name&equals;"Article Body &lpar;Elements&rpar;" data-pb-curated&equals;"curated">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"collection collection-cards">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<h6 data-page&equals;"1"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-293810" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Yvonne-Mason-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Yvonne Mason 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1400" height&equals;"1400" &sol;>The White House sent retired teacher&comma; Yvonne Mason&comma; received a letter full of &&num;8220&semi;silly mistakes&&num;8221&semi; on May 3<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p data-page&equals;"1">A retired English teacher in South Carolina took  The White House back to grade school&period; Yvonne Mason shared in an online posting&comma; a letter she received from the White House<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Mason&comma; who taught in public schools for 17 years&comma; told the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;usatoday&period;com&sol;story&sol;news&sol;nation-now&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;26&sol;teacher-corrects-white-house-letter-sends-back-trump&sol;647256002&sol;">Greenville News<&sol;a>&comma; that the letter President Trump signed was &&num;8220&semi;stylistically appalling&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I have never&comma; ever&comma; received a letter with this many silly mistakes&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-nativo inline-ad " data-inline-ad-count&equals;"2"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-293812" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Yvonne-Mason-corrected-Trumps-letter&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Yvonne Mason corrected Trump's letter&period;jpg" width&equals;"636" height&equals;"847" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong> &&num;8220&semi;I have never&comma; ever&comma; received a letter with this many silly mistakes&comma;&&num;8221&semi;  &&num;8211&semi; Yvonne Mason<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;<div data-inline-ad-count&equals;"2">The retired high school English teacher had seen these blunders many times before&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div data-inline-ad-count&equals;"2">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"speakable-p-1 p-text">Redundancies&period; Faulty capitalization&period; Lack of clarity and specificity&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But Mason wasn&&num;8217&semi;t grading a student paper&period; She was reading a letter she received from President Donald Trump&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I have never&comma; ever&comma; received a letter with this many silly mistakes&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mason said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The former Mauldin High School teacher promptly did what she had done thousands of times before&colon; She corrected the writing and returned it&comma; this one going back to the White House&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mason recognizes&comma; of course&comma; that the form letter she received from the president was very likely written by a staff member&comma; not Trump&comma; though the letter does include Trump&&num;8217&semi;s signature&period; It came in reply to a letter she&&num;8217&semi;d written about the Feb&period; 14 school shooting in Florida&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<section id&equals;"left" class&equals;"left guttered width-100">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"fcTyr01Ehq6lSq" class&equals;"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name&equals;"Article Body &lpar;Elements&rpar;" data-pb-curated&equals;"curated">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"collection collection-cards">&NewLine;<h6 data-inline-ad-count&equals;"2"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-293813" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Yvonne-Mason-corrected-Trumps-letter-2&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Yvonne Mason corrected Trump's letter 2" width&equals;"626" height&equals;"835" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<b>Teacher mode&colon; Retired Mauldin High School teacher Yvonne Mason&comma; corrected the grammatical errors in the correspondence and returned it to the White House<&sol;b><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div data-inline-ad-count&equals;"2">The White House had responded to her on May 3 after she sent the Trump administration a note about the Parkland shooting massacre&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"raw&lowbar;html">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"element element-rawhtml ">&NewLine;<p>She posted a photo of the letter to Facebook&comma; complete with her edits made in purple ink&comma; which went viral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Got a letter from Mr&period; Trump&period; Will be returning it tomorrow&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the caption read&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-293811" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;Donald-Trump-and-thegrammer-error-prone-letter-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Donald Trump and thegrammer error prone letter 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1400" height&equals;"1028" &sol;>Regarding the letter sent out on behalf of the president &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If it had been written in middle school&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d give it a C or C-plus&comma;” Mason said<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>She said although the letter was likely written by a White House staffer and not by the President himself&comma; the mistakes were unacceptable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When you get letters from the highest level of government&comma; you expect them to be at least mechanically correct&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the educator added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>And if it was up to her to grade the White House&quest; She would give them a failing score&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If it had been written in middle school&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d give it a C or C-plus&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mason said&period; &&num;8220&semi;If it had been written in high school&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d give it a D&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;

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