I noticed the other "dumbing down" thread. I cannot even bare to open it. Did you know, most school districts in our country do not even teach or grade on spelling anymore?

"all the red markings on a paper may lead to low self-esteem."

I say, the lack of them WILL lead to an uneducationed generation. Shit, even if they are intelligent, or book smart, you wouldn't know it to read anything they write.

I went to my son's school to have a chat about this with admins. and was told, "Hand writing will soon be obsolete, as will spelling. The introduction of spell check software and typing will replace both needs"

First of all, if you can't spell, you cannot use spell check for everything. I have seen 7th graders who spell "use" "yous" if you do not know how to spell "need" and you make a guess at it, how do you know if you need "knead" or "need"? Who is going to hire these kids when they can not spell their own name on a job application?
What colleges are going to say, "Well, he can't spell for shit, but he has good grades!!"

They also have stopped teaching cursive writing, because that too is obsolete. I guess we can all just resort to a big fat "X" in place of a signature. *sighs*

[link to writinghood.com]

[link to www.greatschools.net]

[link to www.sntp.net]