Typos are normal, but what happened to the education people had in their younger years?? Have you noticed to horrendous spelling and grammer as of late?
Why do you suppose that is?
Typos are normal, but what happened to the education people had in their younger years?? Have you noticed to horrendous spelling and grammer as of late?
Why do you suppose that is?
Good question.
When I was in school (back in the olden days) grammar and sentence structure was part of your English class. Neither of my daughters (23 & 21) were ever taught how to diagram a sentence in elementary or middle school. While in high school my older daughter took advanced Spanish classes and said she learned more about sentence structure in those classes than in any English class she ever had.
According to one of my teacher friends, it was taken out of the curriculum (just as penmanship was) because it was no longer deemed necessary. The focus has become the material included in the stanardized tests students are now required to pass.
There are still the occasional teachers who try; my husband for one, my daughter for another. But they teach college and high school respectively; the damage is more or less done. Although woe betide the student in my husband's classes who doesn't at least run spell and grammar checks; he WILL take points off for errors.
Well, then Zedex,
Why didn't you catch my faux paux
Zedex, might I sugges a spelling class
Classical eduction is dead. All students and teachers are interested in now is teaching technical job skills.