I regularly bewail the total lack of writing skill displayed by my students. I attributed it to texting, Tweeting, ignorance, laziness, and total erosion of standards in our public school system. I apparently am not alone:
Good Enough at Four is Good Enough For Life
Apparently I was wrong. My standards are not related to professional application of the language, but rather to racism and perpetuation of an aristocratic class system.
1 comment:
Doesn't surprise me. I'm regularly in classrooms in grades PK through 12 fixing some IT problem. It is not at all unusual to hear a teacher say something along the lines of "just write down what your thinking, grammar/spelling is not important these days."
Yesterday, I spent about 4 hours trying to debug a program I'm developing. Finally, noticed that I had a semicolon missing.
Nope, grammar and spelling aren't important at all.
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