OT: the crust of the matter

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/14/2010 01:02 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>from a recent post:
>
>"The crust of the matter is, my responsibility as an ESL teacher is
>to teach them the second language so that they can enter the real world..."

The second language thus is not English.


>Good point.  Nothing like a good crust.

And a crusty teacher is worth 1000 words.

Joel

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