Why the Bad Spelling and Grammar on GLP? Only 25 percent of new COLLEGE grads are proficiently literate

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Key words=RAISE CHILDREN

Most children are not being raised by parents per se that responsibility has been placed on their teachers!

You are very right that the love of learning must be instilled. However, parents are the first teachers. If that does not happen which it often does not(parents are working 3 jobs) then by the 4th grade all the material to be covered becomes overwhelming! Kindergarten teachers are struggling because many incoming students were not taught anything from their parents! Things that should have been taught from birth.

Learning must occur both in the home and in the school. If learning is seen as in-school activity only then there is no way an entire classroom of 30-35-40 students can ALL absorb the enormous material.

Your child is a special needs student and in my state special needs children receive more attention and more funding. Those who fall in the middle of the bell curve must sink or swim. Actually, those who fall in the 80th percentile if they are not removed to a gifted school tend to fall to lower levels alongside of their peers.

If you continue this pattern into high school then yes you will see entering Freshmen who lack basic skills. The problem is multi-faceted but if you want to get to the root let's not look at the schools but the homes.

hey are you a boy

Do I spell like a girl?


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Right!

She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells Seashore shells.

Now say it!!!

Pfffft. The education system is just that--a system. Students are taught how to work the system, not learn. Many graduates get through with top notch grades without having learned much of anything. College isn't about learning, it's about getting a special piece of paper so you can get a jorb and make money. End of story.

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College Students do not want to learn. Many of them could not tell you where the library is on their campus. They do want to borrow 30,000$ a year in student loans, buy a laptop, a book bag, fill said bookbag with grossly overpriced books and walk around campus doing the Big Student on campus shuffle. They are born dumb and die dumber.

It`s difficult to know what else one can expect of a nation wherein only one in ten homes has a book of any kind.Surely it`s only such an illiterate population that can return a "head of state" who sounds as if he`s been thrown together in a Transylvanian basement.
American influence is feared worldwide because of it`s tendency to create wilful , demographic stupidity.

HEAR HEAR!

I blame three main reasons for the decline of proficient reading, writing and comprehension standards:

1 - National Education Association for their decades-long efforts to dumb-down children.

2 - Media promotion and popularization of celebrities and the sad public emulation of the celebrities' behaviors, talks, and styles. Listen to too many badly written or poorly conceived songs by singers of different music themes, too.

3 - Emulation of hip-hop and black culture language. More young people of non-African American backgrounds (white, Hispanic, Asian, etc) are emulating the languages of the black Americans, yah know whatyam sayin'?


Just watch some MTV shows like "Next" or "The Real World" and you have a pretty good idea of young people with bad reading, writing and comprehension standards they've learned in schools or colleges.

Absolutely. We have children on both sides of that coin and that is so true. Sad, isn't it?

Two other things that stand out as part of the problem:

1.) Teachers that do NOT know how to TEACH, AND who are also illiterate themselves. I am so appalled at the letters we receive from the faculty at our kids' school. The grammar is unbelievably BAD.

My mother, who taught for 25 years and is now an administrator, will be the first to tell you just how bad the system is now. She really feels somewhat betrayed by her profession, and this really started years ago: I remember when she was working on her Masters (when I was in high school, 20 years ago) and she was appalled THEN at the level of illiteracy of her peers who were taking the same classes as she was. She felt that her degree really didn't mean much at all.

Now she's an administrator for a large school system, and she often shares emails and/or memos from the superintendent with us. You wouldn't believe how bad the grammar is in those - and yet we wonder why our schools are failing.

She has decided to write a grant in hopes to start a 'cottage' type school for her (very near) 'retirement' years. I think she is doing this mainly to help save her younger grandchildren :)

2.) Teachers now 'teach the test' instead of teaching the skills.

In addition to that, the few teachers that ARE good, and who don't succumb to this insanity are not only NOT rewarded, but often 'punished'. We witnessed this recently at my daughter's school. She has an Algebra teacher who is a gem: My daughter, unlike my oldest son who is academically gifted, is more of a slightly (just slightly) above average student - but she really has to work. She's always struggled a bit in math (unlike English, however, where she shines, as do all of my children). This lady is the first teacher to really 'get through' to her – I actually caught my daughter ‘teaching’ my youngest son square roots the other day 

Anyway, this lady was yelled at – in front of the kids – by the principal (about two weeks ago). Why? Her students’ grades (on average) weren’t as ‘high’ as some of the other teachers. Yet we know for a fact (having had some of the other teachers) that this lady is a much better teacher who is not artificially inflating the grades or teaching only ‘test skills’ instead of Algebra skills. This lady left in the middle of the day crying. My daughter was very upset, because she feels this lady is the best teacher she’s ever had, and she had to witness this and now there’s also a bit of innocence lost – and she realizes it (she’s 15, almost 16).

Our education system is so screwed up. We’ve had our kids in public and private school and really didn’t see much difference, either. I don’t ‘officially’ home school, because I still believe that the social skills learned in a group setting (along with extra curricular activities like band, cheer, soccer, etc.) are important. However, we do ‘home-school’ in the sense that we often re-teach material to our kids after school, because the teachers didn’t do a good job of that during the day. I can’t tell you how many times my kids have come home with ‘read pages 1-15 and do problems 1-36 on page 16’ and that was the sole attempt to teach the skill. Many times teachers will assign a task such as this, and then spend the next 45 minutes of class time doing NOTHING – just letting the kids ‘do their work’ with no intervention or actual ‘teaching’ going on at all. It’s almost like distance learning to some extent. So we, the parents, end up teaching the material to our kids when they get home – which is fine, and I’m happy to do it, but sort of irks me that the teachers - generally speaking, not all of them – are not.

Sorry for the long post. This is a topic for which I am VERY passionate!

I'm 52 and I returned to college 2 years ago.

The young kids always want me to proofread and edit their essays etc. for english comp class.

I can tell you that some of the essays looked as though a second grader wrote them.

It's absolutely frightening what our public school system has become. I don't know how in the hell most of those kids ever got accepted into college or were even allowed to graduate from high school. Thne grammar was horrendous along with puncuation and sentence structure.

I'm 52 and I returned to college 2 years ago.

The young kids always want me to proofread and edit their essays etc. for english comp class.

I can tell you that some of the essays looked as though a second grader wrote them.

It's absolutely frightening what our public school system has become. I don't know how in the hell most of those kids ever got accepted into college or were even allowed to graduate from high school. Thne grammar was horrendous along with puncuation and sentence structure.

I'm 52 and I returned to college 2 years ago.

The young kids always want me to proofread and edit their essays etc. for english comp class.

I can tell you that some of the essays looked as though a second grader wrote them.

It's absolutely frightening what our public school system has become. I don't know how in the hell most of those kids ever got accepted into college or were even allowed to graduate from high school. Thne grammar was horrendous along with puncuation and sentence structure.

Here's the truth about college and society in modern america, most don't want to hear it but its the truth: Its falling apart.

We are letting women run the show and its hurting us. We are outsourcing our tech jobs because we only graduate women's studies, philosophy and communications majors now because women don't like math and science, engineering.

60 percent of graduates are now women. MOST of these will work in the workforce for maybe 3 or 4 years then they will drop out, raise kids and maybe part time it.

China and India are killing us in the tech sector and our countries industrial base is being driven away by female friendly workplace policies like HR, sexual harassment, FMLA laws and affirmative action.

We are handing degrees out like candy to primarily women who are then not using that in the workforce but dropping out to have kids and be a SUV driving koffee klatsching soccer mom who will in 8 out of 10 divorces be the one to take the kids and house away from a hard working man which also affect productivity of the one gender who is actually doing anything for the GDP.

Were fucked. No matter how good women have it, they are never happy.

True story: friends wife, multimillionaire, lives in the best house in the whole town, totally on anti-depressants and cheating on her husband.

There is a reason older generations kept women in check. Just like forbidden knowledge of wiser past generations, we have forgotten.

We are so fucked.

Personally, even as a writer I hate the, to/too's, they drive me nuts on their correct usage...

I don`t know about being a "writer" ; perhaps you ought to read a bit more....

Do you really think that many college grads are hanging out here?

To answer your second question first, because we have been raised since 5th Grade depending on Spell Check, duh! And for you first question...because GLP doesn't offer Spell Check!

Naughty naughty! We'll have to send you off to phonetics classes.


The way in which you write or speak says a lot about who you are.

Here's one right here!

yes but i ll bet you a buttload of money
they
do know how to type

no matter that what they type
is barely understandable gibberish

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sorry
wrong thread

peace

peace

literate but dyslexic. good enuff?

and i don't give a whit about spelling nor do i give a whit about grammar. if i have time off (finally) i'm going to enjoy and not be concerned (too much) about spelling as i already have enuff to do with having letters in the right spot.

dersh.

Then you must expect of course that your opinions are discounted - and quite right too.

Haha, it only shows the pussy foot mentality of the grammer kings that feel disgusted by free thinking grammaticly incorrect people that have a problem.

The spelling police are to caught up in the logic to not understand and let the free creative thought process flow.

Spelling polcie are grounded in a world of logic and frustration over the minute.

LOL, u guys are beyond help!!!!

Yeah I dropped out of school at a young age too. Though experiencing life and living different cultures has grown my being mor ethan any school could teach me.
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YOur education is a joke!

Bullshit , your post only shows that you POSSESS the things you affect to deride , but like many middle class people , wish to pull up the ladder after you so that the masses may not migrate to your level of priveledge; what are you - a scumbag lawyer?