[defconw]

Well Thanks, but I feel I could use some remedial work in English. I don't know if I was not taught it or just forgot it. I always did well on standardized tests. In the classroom I was kind of a daydreamer if it was to hard or I just way not interested. I never got in trouble, but I was not really paying attention.

My first protest/march, yes they did that in my day as well. I was in Kindergarten. Earth Day 1970. Course being a rather clueless child had no idea what we were doing.

Mostly I remember just being very confused most of my childhood. My parents were both the youngest in their families and their parents were much older than them. My parents were born in 42 and 43. So I don't know what that makes them. But I get the sense that if it were not for my grandmothers, I might not have survived. Blind leading the blind. (Parents). LOL

The elementary teachers (we moved a lot), but most of the ones I had were older. The exception was 5th grade. She was young and fun. Course then she left to get married.

Starting in Jr. High we started to get men who did not seem like the military type. High school was worse. In college, we actually would figure out which way they leaned and just tell them what they wanted to hear to get the grade. Now it would be hard for a kid to get the truth. We at least could still find the truth and not every teacher was a screaming lefty loon.

I would love to teach history but I know I would last about 5 minutes.

[reformedliberal]

...My parents were born in 42 and 43. So I don’t know what that makes them....
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Well, it makes them old!!!

My cohort. We’re called The Silent Generation. Our younger sibs were early Boomers.

My personal feeling about English proficiency is it is impacted greatly by what you hear all day. A child growing up in literate family is miles ahead even if they forget how to diagram a sentence. The constructions are just 2nd nature. Literature and literary criticism all depend on how you read and if you’re lucky enough to be around people who not only read, but discuss the work in deeper terms than plot outlines.

My fairy tales, for example, came from my mother’s college text in Norse mythology. My father loved science-fiction and allowed me to read anything I wanted from an early age. This was a great advantage when I went to school. I should add, an advantage academically. Socially, not so much.