07-05-2012, 07:06 PM
[cool][#0000ff]I already got in my rant on this subject a month or so back. Couldn't believe how many PMs I got telling me I should be ashamed of myself. Yeah, I understand about folks with learning problems or second language situations. I apologize for offending anybody in those categories.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]What I was poking fun at were all of the careless misspellings of common Utah lakes and towns...and species. But I do find it atrocious that our schools are graduating students these days that cannot use basic grammar or punctuation...or who do not know how to spell even the most basic words.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the PM flames I received berrated me for commenting about the fractured English of a member who is still a teenager. All I can say is that when I was in high school we were not promoted to the next grade unless we were able to communicate better than that. Today the policy is no student is left behind...no matter how poorly equipped they are to get a good job or function in polite society.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Blame it on the students for being more interested in things besides education. And blame it on the school system for allowing that to pass.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]What I was poking fun at were all of the careless misspellings of common Utah lakes and towns...and species. But I do find it atrocious that our schools are graduating students these days that cannot use basic grammar or punctuation...or who do not know how to spell even the most basic words.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the PM flames I received berrated me for commenting about the fractured English of a member who is still a teenager. All I can say is that when I was in high school we were not promoted to the next grade unless we were able to communicate better than that. Today the policy is no student is left behind...no matter how poorly equipped they are to get a good job or function in polite society.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Blame it on the students for being more interested in things besides education. And blame it on the school system for allowing that to pass.[/#0000ff]
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