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StrunkWhite
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Our Schools?
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8/8/2008 3:32:14 PM
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Your rant against the educational system would be more effective if you didn't write as if you hadn't set foot in a school since fourth grade. "Abismal," "weather," "coarses" and "subdising" aren't just typos; they are examples of not knowing how to spell ("abismal" and "subdising"), and not knowing which form of a word to use ("weather" instead of the proper "whether," "coarses" instead of "courses".)
Not that you didn't have your share of typos, too, but that happens; I'm sure you knew better than to intentionally type "histort," "phorno," and "continutng."
People can blame politicians all they want (including, it seems, politicians who have yet to be elected) but the real problem can be found by looking in the mirror. When teachers pass students who clearly have not learned the material, when parents allow their children to be under-educated, and when the students themselves are perfectly happy with not being able to communicate the written language in an age-appropriate manner, then it's not the fault of the politicians; it's the fault of the teachers, the parents and the students.
Yes, programs such as "No Child Left Behind" are rooted in politics, but that is because the teachers, parents and students ALL failed to such a degree that such measures are needed. (And of course the biggest irony of all is that NCLB has itself turned out to be such a failure.)
If you want people to take your rant seriously, communicate it like an educated adult; otherwise we can only think "this person obviously has no experience with more than rudimentary education, so why should we take anything he says about higher education seriously?"
A written language is such an incredible thing; when did people stop putting any value on it? It can say so much about who you are... and, sometimes, who you are not.
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