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.
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."
ReplyDeleteYesterday, 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.