It is spelled Peña and not Pena.
The same as Mayor Peña.
The same as Peña Blvd.

Why is so difficult for people to spell correctly?

This is just another example of the
pervasivness of foreign languages on
the English lexicon which are not
necessarily appropriate and are
contrary to the concept of assimilation

Public eduation struggles with the same
baloney for instance BI LINGUAL ed.

you have classrooms filled with students
who speak and write (but not very well)
foreign languages. It’s almost ironic
that the Grammer nazi brought it up.

It’s appropoe to failing public education
and failing students and closed public
schools

It is hard in this world today, with all of the crap that is said by ALL sides, to not become hardened and bitter. I encourage you to try to see the goodness that is out there in life. I am trying to do the same. We only have one shot at this world and it is better to become part of the solution, no matter how small that your role may be.

That is nonsense.
You don’t use a “word processing program within a browser”. That is just technical nonsense speak.

It is just laziness upon the part of writers (typists) that causes names such as Peña to be misspelled. Sheesh. Next you will tell me you can’t spell François Mitterand or Gerhard Shröder or José Martí.

,dave

Jim, I really disappointed in you; it seems you need an education in public education. You seem to be an apologist for Bennet and the school board who feel the way to “fix” schools is to close them. Why is it the school that’s broken? Is the school tested? The teachers? No, it’s the students? So why did the students fail or for that matter improve on their standardized CSAP/LNCB testing made up by right wing education wannabes? The real reason can’t be addressed because it’s politically incorrect. That’s what this woman was trying to suggest. You can’t make it about people of race and color, because that would be “racist” and biggoted. But where is the problem?

Ask any teacher off the record where the problem lies. They will tell over and over it lies with the parents and their environment. Call it racial, call it cultural, but it’s not that simple. It’s parents who wont invest in their kids future or support the teachers and school system. How come the inner city schools fail, but the urban schools get by?

So how do you fix the problem. You hire a businessman to run an education system. It’s not about money; if it was, hire a contractor to fix the problem. The problem is learning, for that you need EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, not businessman. Just like the Dennis and the right wing believe “anyone can teach” even they’re smart enough to know the DPS efficacy motto that “every child can learn” isn’t exactly true. You don’t fix the problem of learning improvement by closing schools and reopening, and showing how much money you saved. This is how businessmen think, the bottom line, never the human element. I’m wait for some failing corporation to hire a professional educator to fix their problem.

Before going off on another inane rant about language, learn how to spell the word grammar.

2. English is very strong at absorbing words from other languages. For example, façade and fiancée. Both of these have accent marks and both are spelled as shown by the American Heritage Dictionary. English does not require that we drop the accent mark when English absorbs the word. FYI, the New Yorker magazine (full of literate English-writing Americans) spells it coöperation. Although, they are last holdout on this.

3. The tilde is required in Federico’s last name because that is how HE spells it. WE don’t get to decide how to spell HIS name.