The US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, sent a letter to the president of Harvard University, Alan Garber, in which he warns that the institution will not receive new subsidies from the US government, under the argument that the prestigious university “has mocked” of the country’s higher education system.
The three -page document was published on Monday by the official on social network X and has been widely commented due to the grammatical errors it contains. Social network users made corrections to the “teacher style”, in publications that have been disseminated in recent days.
In the letter, McMahon said that Harvard has “breached his legal obligations, his ethical and fiduciary duties, his responsibilities for transparency and any hint of academic rigor.”
One of the users developed a corrected version of the text, accompanied by the message: Our Secretary of ‘Education’. Among the outstanding mistakes are capitalized words that should have been written in lowercase, incomplete phrases, incoherent use of verbal times and confusion between the terms systemic (Systemic) and systematic (Systematic).
Before the thousands of comments accumulated for its publication, the author responded to some criticisms and clarified that he is not considered superior to the work he currently owns as a doctoral student, but said that an education secretary “must know how to write at a fifth grade level” (children between ten and eleven years in the US. UU.).
Although some users pointed out that the author of the correction was a Harvard student, it is actually a student of the Doctorate in Economics of the Massachusetts Institute (MIT).
The original publication already adds more than 256,000 “like” and 25,000 retweets, figures that are still increasing.
The White House correspondent of the British media The IndependentAndrew Feinberg, also criticized the writing of the letter and added: “Whoever has written this hardly knows how to read and write.” This episode adds to the confrontation between Harvard and the administration of Donald Trump, which froze in mid -April US $ 2.2 billion in federal funds for the university, after it rejected the government application to eliminate its diversity programs and monitor the ideological orientation of its foreign students.